Date: 1831
Format: Drawn in the back of a 1830-31 field notebook
Description: A direct predecessor to De la Beche's most famous cartoon. The grammatical error is original, and the crossed-out word is "skull".
For more on De la Beche vs Lyell, see this page.
For more on Lyell himself, see his entry on the biography page.
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Sources & further discussion:
First described in Rudwick, M. J. (1975). Caricature as a source for the history of science: De la Beche's anti-Lyellian sketches of 1831. Isis, 66(4), 534-560. Link [www.journals.uchicago.edu]
Image yoinked from:
Rudwick (1975)
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