entirely revised edition, 1872; twelfth,
edited by L. Lyell, 1875).
Elements of Geology, 1838 (second edition, 1841).
A Manual of Elementary Geology (third and entirely revised edition of
the former work, 1851; fourth and entirely revised edition, 1852; fifth,
enlarged edition, 1855; Supplement to the fifth edition, 1857; second
edition of the Supplement, revised, 1857).
Elements of Geology, sixth edition, greatly enlarged, 1865.
Travels in North America, with geological observations on the United
States, Canada, and Nova Scotia, 1845.
A Second Visit to the United States of North America, 1849.
The Students' Elements of Geology, 1871 (second edition, revised and
corrected, 1874; third, revised, with a table of British fossils [by R.
Etheridge], 1878; fourth, revised by P.M. Duncan, with a table of
British fossils [by R. Etheridge], 1884).
The Geological Evidences of the Antiquity of Man, with remarks on
theories of the origin of species by variation, 1863; (second edition,
revised, 1863; third edition, revised, 1863; fourth edition, revised,
1873).
There has also been published The Student's Lyell: a Manual of
Elementary Geology, edited by J.W. Judd, 1896 (second edition revised
and enlarged, 1911).
LECTURES, ADDRESSES, AND ARTICLES:
On a Recent Formation of Freshwater Limestone in Forfarshire
("Transactions of the Geological Society" 2nd series, volume 2, 1826,
part 1).
On a Dike of Serpentine in the County of Forfar ("Edinburgh Journal of
Science" 1825).
English Scientific Societies ("Quarterly Review" volume 34; three
papers with Sir Roderick and Mrs. Murchison ("Edinburgh
Philosophical Journal," 1829; abstract in "Proceedings of the
Geological Society" 1; "Annales des Sciences Naturelles" 1829;
abstract in "Proceedings of the Geological Society" 1).
Address delivered at the Geological Society of London, 1836.
Lectures on Geology--Eight Lectures on Geology, delivered at the
Broadway Tabernacle, New York ("New York Tribune" 1842).
A Paper on Madeira ("Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society" 10,
1853).
On the Structure of Lavas which have Consolidated on Steep Slopes
("Philosophical Transactions" 1858).
Address (to the British Association) 1864.
TRANSLATIONS:
Antiquity of Man, translated into French by M. Chaper, 1864; and into
German by L. Buchner, 1874.
Elements of Geology (sixth edition), translated into French by M. J.
Gineston, 1867.
Report, extracted from the "Aberdeen Free Press" and translated into
French, of Sir C. Lyell's address before the British Association, 1859,
under the title of Antiquities antediluviennes: L'homme fossile.
LIFE:
Life, Letters and Journals of Sir Charles Lyell, edited by his
sister-in-law, Mrs. Lyell, 1881.
See also:
Life and Letters of Charles Darwin, 1887.
Life and Letters of Sedgwick, by Clark and Hughes, 1890.
CONTENTS.
CHAPTER 1.
INTRODUCTORY.
Preliminary Remarks on the Subjects treated of in this Work.
Definition of the terms Recent and Pleistocene. Tabular View of the
entire Series of Fossiliferous Strata.
CHAPTER 2.
RECENT PERIOD--DANISH PEAT AND SHELL MOUNDS--
SWISS LAKE-DWELLINGS.
Works of Art in Danish Peat-Mosses. Remains of three Periods of
Vegetation in the Peat. Ages of Stone, Bronze, and Iron. Shell-Mounds
or ancient Refuse-Heaps of the Danish Islands. Change in geographical
Distribution of Marine Mollusca since their Origin. Embedded
Remains of Mammalia of Recent Species. Human Skulls of the same
Period. Swiss Lake-Dwellings built on Piles. Stone and Bronze
Implements found in them. Fossil Cereals and other Plants. Remains of
Mammalia, wild and domesticated. No extinct Species. Chronological
Computations of the Date of the Bronze and Stone Periods in
Switzerland. Lake-Dwellings, or artificial Islands called "Crannoges,"
in Ireland.
CHAPTER 3.
FOSSIL HUMAN REMAINS AND WORKS OF ART OF THE
RECENT PERIOD--continued.
Delta and Alluvial Plain of the Nile. Burnt Bricks in Egypt before the
Roman Era. Borings in 1851-54. Ancient Mounds of the Valley of the
Ohio. Their Antiquity. Sepulchral Mound at Santos in Brazil. Delta of
the Mississippi. Ancient Human Remains in Coral Reefs of Florida.
Changes in Physical Geography in the Human Period. Buried Canoes
in Marine Strata near Glasgow. Upheaval since the Roman Occupation
of the Shores of the Firth of Forth. Fossil Whales near Stirling.
Upraised Marine Strata of Sweden on Shores of the Baltic and the
Ocean. Attempts to compute their Age.
CHAPTER 4.
PLEISTOCENE PERIOD--BONES OF MAN AND EXTINCT
MAMMALIA IN BELGIAN CAVERNS.
Earliest Discoveries in Caves of Languedoc of Human Remains with
Bones of extinct Mammalia. Researches in 1833 of Dr. Schmerling in
the Liege Caverns. Scattered Portions of Human Skeletons associated
with Bones of Elephant and Rhinoceros. Distribution and probable
Mode of Introduction of the Bones. Implements of Flint and Bone.
Schmerling's Conclusions as to the Antiquity of Man ignored. Present
State of the Belgian Caves. Human Bones recently found in Cave of
Engihoul. Engulfed Rivers. Stalagmitic Crust. Antiquity of the Human
Remains in Belgium how proved.
CHAPTER 5.
PLEISTOCENE PERIOD--FOSSIL HUMAN SKULLS OF THE
NEANDERTHAL AND ENGIS CAVES.
Human Skeleton found in Cave near Dusseldorf. Its geological Position
and probable Age. Its abnormal and ape-like Characters. Fossil Human
Skull of the
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