Sir Charles Lyell was a British geologist. He was born in 1797 at Kinnordy and died in 1875. Educated at Midhurst, Sussex and at Exeter College, Oxford he afterwards entered Lincoln's Inn on being called to the bar. He had an interest in science, and devoted himself to the study of geology, specialising in marine remains of the Tertiary period, travelling widely in Europe studying. Sir Charles Lyell was twice president of the Geological Society and president of the British Association. He was knighted in 1848 and made a baronet in 1864. After he died he was buried at Westminster Abbey. Research Charles Lyell
Sir John William Dawson was a Canadian geologist. He was born in 1820 at Pictou, Nova Scotia and died in 1899. He was educated at Pictou and at Edinburgh University, and early turned his attention to geology, having published papers on the subject when not much over twenty. He accompanied Sir Charles Lyell when examining the geology of Nova Scotia in 1842. In 1850 he became superintendent of education for Nova Scotia, and in 1855 principal and professor of natural history in M'Gill College, Montreal, in which position, as well as in that of vice-chancellor, and latterly principal of the university, his services in the cause of education were very marked. He became a member of the Royal Society (London) in 1862, was knighted in 1885, and was president of the British Association in 1886 during its meeting at Birmingham. His published works include Acadian Geology; The Story of the Earth and Man; Science and the Bible; The Dawn of Life; etc. Research John Dawson
The faluns is a series of strata, of the Middle Tertiary period, of France, abounding in shells, and used by Sir Charles Lyell as the type of his Miocene subdivision. Research Faluns
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