A lawyer and the son of a naturalist, he travelled throughout Europe and North America to make geological observations and published Principles of Geology and Elements of Geology.
A lawyer and the son of a naturalist, he travelled throughout Europe and North America to make geological observations and published Principles of Geology and Elements of Geology. His work generally won the acceptance of uniformitarianism, and was helpful to the development of evolutionary theory; a friend of Darwin, he eventually came to accept natural selection tentatively.
A lawyer and the son of a naturalist, he travelled throughout Europe and North America to make geological observations and published Principles of Geology and Elements of Geology.
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