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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 delivered his popular lectures in Boston at the Lowell Institute. These presentations were highly successful, attracting thousands of attendees from diverse social backgrounds.1