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(the President) Address he was sitting, in the 

 Sheldonian, next to Huxley, who was to second 

 the vote of thanks. Lord Sahsbury discussed the 

 Darwinian theory in a way with which they 

 neither of them agreed. " Ah, my dear Lubbock," 

 said Huxley, " how I wish we were going to speak 

 in Section D " (where the Address could have 

 been discussed) " instead of here ! " 



Sir John's comment in his diary on Lord 

 SaUsbury's speech is that " Salisbury's address 

 was very clever and in some parts quite witty, 

 but he does not seem to me to have grasped 

 Natural Selection. The scene in the Sheldonian 

 was very striking." 



On the 17th they started for Switzerland, Sir 

 John, Lady Lubbock, Mr. Douglas Fox Pitt, and 

 the children. He attended the Geological Con- 

 gress at Zurich, and went a most interesting tour 

 under the guidance of Professors Renevier and 

 GoUiez. 



On the 20th he notes, " Have taken to work 

 on my Swiss book in earnest." 



In course of this expedition he made a find 

 which interested him enormously. It is first 

 noted in his diary of Friday, September 7. 

 " Heavy rain and snow. Beautiful glimpses but 

 no distant view. To Murren. In the reputed 

 Triassic, in which no fossils had been discovered, 

 I found a piece with two Nummulites. Renevier 

 is delighted. The authorities all agree that they 

 are Nummulites. GoUiez admits that they are 

 very like, but justly says that they must be 

 examined microscopically. If they are, he says 

 he shall give up geology and Lungeon says there 



