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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.
During his visit to Paris in 1823, Charles Lyell examined the Paris Basin with the French geologist Louis-Constant Prévost.1
While in Paris that same year, he also met the renowned naturalists Alexander von Humboldt and Georges Cuvier.1