Produced by Barbara Kosker, Bryan Ness and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries) _THE CENTURY SCIENCE SERIES_ EDITED BY SIR HENRY E. ROSCOE, D.C.L., LL.D., F.R.S. CHARLES LYELL AND MODERN GEOLOGY The Century Science Series. EDITED BY SIR HENRY E. ROSCOE, D.C.L., F.R.S., M.P. * * * * * =John Dalton and the Rise of Modern Chemistry.= By Sir HENRY E. ROSCOE, F.R.S. =Major Rennell, F.R.S., and the Rise of English Geography.= By CLEMENTS R. MARKHAM, C.B., F.R.S., President of the Royal Geographical Society. =Justus von Liebig: his Life and Work (1803-1873).= By W. A. SHENSTONE, F.I.C., Lecturer on Chemistry in Clifton College. =The Herschels and Modern Astronomy.= By AGNES M. CLERKE, Author of "A Popular History of Astronomy during the 19th Century," &c. =Charles Lyell and Modern Geology.= By Rev. Professor T. G. BONNEY, F.R.S. =Clerk Maxwell and Modern Physics.= By R. T. GLAZEBROOK, F.R.S., Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. _In Preparation._ =Michael Faraday: his Life and Work.= By Professor SILVANUS P. THOMPSON, F.R.S. =Humphry Davy.= By T. E. THORPE, F.R.S., Principal Chemist of the Government Laboratories. =Pasteur: his Life and Work.= By M. ARMAND RUFFER, M.D., Director of the British Institute of Preventive Medicine. =Charles Darwin and the Origin of Species.= By EDWARD B. POULTON, M.A., F.R.S., Hope Professor of Zoology in the University of Oxford. =Hermann von Helmholtz.= By A. W. RÜCKER, F.R.S., Professor of Physics in the Royal College of Science, London. CASSELL & COMPANY, LIMITED, _London; Paris & Melbourne_ [Illustration: HW: Charles Lyell] _THE CENTURY SCIENCE SERIES_ CHARLES LYELL AND MODERN GEOLOGY BY PROF. T. G. BONNEY D.SC., LL.D., F.R.S., ETC. New York MACMILLAN & CO. 1895 PREFACE.