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by a partition for the purposes of the library. It 

 was not term time, nor were the general public 

 admitted; nevertheless the room was crowded to 

 suffocation long before the protagonists appeared on 

 the scene, 700 persons or more managing to find 

 places. The very windows by which the ro'om was 

 lighted down the length of its west side were packed 

 with ladies, whose white handkerchiefs, waving and 

 fluttering in the air at the end of the Bishop's speech, 

 were an unforgettable factor in the acclamation of 

 the crowd. 



On the east side between the two doors was the 

 platform. Professor Henslow, the President of the 

 section, took his seat in the centre ; upon his right 

 was the Bishop, and beyond him again Dr. Draper ; 

 on his extreme left was Mr. Dingle, a clergyman 

 from Lanchester, near Durham, with Sir J. Hooker 

 and Sir J. Lubbock in front of him, and nearer the 

 centre, Professor Beale of King's College, London, 

 and Huxley. 



The clergy, who shouted lustily for the Bishop, 

 were massed in the middle of the room ; behind them 

 in the north-west corner a knot of undergraduates 

 (one of these was T. H. Green, who listened but 

 took no part in the cheering) had gathered together 

 beside Professor Brodie, ready to lift their voices, 

 poor minority though they were, for the opposite 

 party. Close to them stood one of the few men 

 among the audience already in Holy orders, who joined 

 in and indeed led the cheers for the Darwinians. 



