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Katharine Murray Lyell
Born
Katharine Murray Horner

1817
Died1915
NationalityBritish
Other namesK.M. Lyell
SpouseHenry Lyell
Scientific career
FieldsBotany
Frontispiece from Katharine Murray Lyell's 1870 book A Geographical Handbook of All the Known Ferns. (The book's title appears in truncated form on this page.)

Katharine Murray Lyell (1817–1915) was a British botanist, author of an early book on the worldwide distribution of ferns, and editor of volumes of the correspondence of several of the era's notable scientists.

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Lyell

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geologist Leonard Lyell, 1st Baron Lyell (1850–1926), Scottish Liberal politician; son of Katharine Murray Lyell James Patrick Ronaldson Lyell (1871–1948),...

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Charles Lyell

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1873 Lyell, Katharine Murray, ed. (1881). Life, Letters, and Journals of Sir Charles Lyell. Vol. 1. London: John Murray. Lyell, Katharine Murray, ed....

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List of female scientists before the 20th century

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Elizabeth Eaton Morse (1864–1955), American mycologist/cryptogamist Katharine Murray Lyell (1817–1915), British botanist Helen Abbott Michael (1857–1904),...

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became the first female editor of an entomological journal. 1870: Katharine Murray Lyell was a British botanist, author of an early book on the worldwide...

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Mary Horner Lyell

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and geologist while her younger sister Katharine became a botanist. In 1832, aged 23, she married Charles Lyell (1787-1875), who was previously taught...

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intellectually active; one of her aunts was the botanist Katharine Murray Lyell, who was a biographer of Charles Lyell, her brother-in-law. Through family connections...

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million years ago (Ma). The Miocene was named by Scottish geologist Charles Lyell; the name comes from the Greek words μείων (meíōn, "less") and καινός (kainós...

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which she received her first Academy Award nomination. Her portrayal of Katharine Hepburn in the biopic The Aviator (2004) won her the Academy Award for...

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the health secretary, the Lyell team are called in to assist by Sam Ryan, a forensic pathologist who had worked on the Lyell eighteen years before. Whilst...

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of Transport Major-General Sir George Pomeroy Colley Major-General Angus Lyell Collier (1893—1971) Major-General Geoffrey Collin Brigadier-General Clennell...

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dames of the Order of Australia Australian peers and baronets Murphy, Katharine (25 March 2014). "Tony Abbott brings back knights and dames to honours...

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father as Duke of Atholl and moved to the House of Lords. His wife Katharine Stewart-Murray, Duchess of Atholl, was MP for Kinross and West Perthshire from...

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(Wadham) Keith Cox (The Queen's and Jesus) Moira Dunbar (St Anne's) Charles Lyell (Exeter) Hugh Edwin Strickland (Oriel) Lawrence Wager Joanna Haigh (Somerville)...

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element of Darwin's theory. Other important geologists include Charles Lyell, author of Principles of Geology, who also coined the term Pleistocene,...

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on 1 August 2008. Retrieved 5 October 2010. Coates, Lucinda; Haynes, Katharine; o'Brien, James; McAneney, John; De Oliveira, Felipe Dimer (2014). "Exploring...

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He was the co-winner of a Charles Doolittle Walcott Medal and also won a Lyell Medal. He is active in the Faraday Institute for study of science and religion...

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Nancy Hatch Dupree Jacquetta Hawkes Margaret Hems Dorothy Hill Mary Horner Lyell Hildegarde Howard Asma Ibrahim Salima Ikram Alexandra Jones Margaret Ursula...

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Luo (China) Ida Lupino (US) Joy Lusco (US) Noémie Lvovsky (France) Lottie Lyell (Australia) Dorothy Lyman (US) Tucia Lyman (US) Jennifer Lynch (US) Lisbeth...

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