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Charles Lyell
Charles Lyell, detail of a replica in oil by Lowes Cato Dickinson, 1883; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Charles Lyell was admitted to the bar in 1825. Although he completed his law studies, he increasingly prioritized his work in geology, publishing his first scientific papers during that same year.1