Fossil bryozoans from the Miocene of Touraine, France, mounted and annotated by William Lonsdale for the famous geologist Sir Charles Lyell Scanning electron micrograph of Wilbertopora woodwardi ...

His family were rather reluctant for his burial to take place in the Abbey. The gravestone is of Carboniferous limestone from Wirksworth in Derbyshire and contains small fossil crinoids (sea lilies) ...

It's been called the most important scientific book ever. A stunning claim, but certainly Charles Lyell's Principles of Geology, published in 1830, shook prevailing views of how Earth had been formed.