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that his chief attacks were directed against Powell's ^ late 

 Essay, from which he quoted passages as ' from an. Oxford 

 Divine ' that would astound Cambridge men, as no doubt 

 they do. He showed how greedily (if I may so speak) Powell 

 has adopted all Darwin has suggested, and applied these 

 suggestions (as if the whole were already proved) to his own 

 views. 



I think I have given you a fair, though very hasty, view 



of what happened, and as I have just had a letter from Dar- 



' win, and really have not a minute to spare for a reply this 



morning, perhaps you will send this to him, as he may like 



to know, to some extent, what happened. 



To Henslow he repHes : 



I expect there will be before long a great revulsion in 

 favour of Darwin to match the senseless howl that is now 

 raised, and that as many converts on no principle will fall 

 in, as there are now antagonists on no principle. Owen has 

 done himself great damage in the eyes of independent literary 

 men (who do not care a rush for the Scientific aspect of the 

 question) whether for the gratuitous attempt to insult me, 

 or the utter baseness of his conduct to his pretended friend 

 Darwin. 



And in June 1860 : 



I never see the Literary Gazette now, and am getting very 

 tired of Darwinian Eeviews ; there is wonderfully little to 

 the purpose in any but Gray's ^ and Owen's,^ Huxley's * and 

 Carpenter's.^ All the rest seem ignorant prejudice. I like 

 a good hostile review even if the tone and spirit are as bad as 

 Owen's ; but from all I hear, Phillips ^ at Oxford and Clark at 

 Cambridge are mere twaddle, and the latter invective. All 



^ Dr. Baden Powell. 



* Amer. Journ. of Science and Arts, April; reprinted in the Athenceum, 

 August 4, 1860. 



2 To Owen was ascribed the review in the Edinburgh Review, April 1860, 

 which also attacked Huxley and Hooker. Cp. M.L. i. 145, 149. 



* Westminster Review, April. 



^ National Review, January, and Med. Chirurg. Review, April 1860. 



^ John Phillips (1800-74) imbibed his love of geology from his uncle William 

 Smith, with whom he worked. Later he was Professor of Geology successively 

 at King's College, London (1834), and Dublin 1844, migrating to Oxford 1853, 

 where he was also Curator of the Museum (1857). President of the Geological 

 Society 1859-60; Wollaston medal 1845; F.R.S. 1834. 



