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occupies. The Hope Professorship of Zoology was established 

 in 1861, and I believe there is little doubt that Mr. Hope founded 

 it in connection with the migration to the University Museum, a 

 migration contemplated in the original deed drawn up in 1849. 



I look back over many years of kindness and most pleasant 

 friendship with my master in Entomology, Professor Westwood 

 — going back to the year 1873, before I became an undergraduate. 

 At that time, as a boy of seventeen, working in the Museum for 

 a scholarship, I often stole an hour from my regular studies 

 in order to visit the Professor and to learn something of the 

 great entomological collection and library. Professor Westwood 

 treated the young beginner with great kindliness and sympathy, 

 and I was permitted to learn much of the intimate thoughts of 

 this eminent leader in the science. Thus, I gathered that of all 

 the long list of classical works which Westwood produced, the 

 one to which he looked back with the deepest interest and añection 

 wa^ his wonderful Introduction to the Modern Classification of 

 Insects. I remember his telling me with a touch of pride that 

 the book was known in America as " The Entomologist's Bible." 



Another interesting feature which makes it appropriate that 

 the Congress should meet in this Museum is the relation which 

 the building bears to the history of Darwinian teaching. Just 

 ñfty-two years ago, on June 30th, i860, between seven hundred 

 and a thousand people gathered in the room which lies a few 

 yards away to the west of the lecture-theatre in which you are 

 sitting, in order to listen to a discussion on evolution, with 

 Darwin's old teacher. Professor Henslow of Cambridge, in the 

 chair. That room, where we shall peacefully write our letters 

 and indulge in quiet talk in the intervals of the more strenuous 

 work in the sections, was the scene of the celebrated duel between 

 the Bishop of Oxford and Professor Huxley. Hardly any 

 episode in the history of Darwinism has been more discussed, and 

 probably no other produced so much excitement ; yet, as often- 

 times when feelings run high, it is very difficult to know what 

 actually happened. Many versions have been published,' but 

 I believe that the most accurate account is that given by my 



^ See Life and Letters of Charles Darwin, Lond., 1887, vol. ii., pp. 320- 

 323 ; Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley, Lond., 1900, vol. i., pp. 

 179-189. 



