264 LIFE OF PROFESSOR HUXLEY CHAP. XI v 



So "Dr. Draper droned out his paper, turning 

 first to the right hand and then to the left, of course 

 bringing in a reference to the Origin of Species 

 which set the ball rolling." 



An hour or more that paper lasted, and then 

 discussion began. The President " wisely announced 

 in limine that none who had not valid arguments to 

 bring forward on one side or the other would be 

 allowed to address the meeting; a caution that 

 proved necessary, for no fewer than four combatants 

 had their utterances burked by him, because of their 

 indulgence in vague declamation." * 



First spoke (writes Professor Farrar 2) a layman from 

 Brompton, who gave his name as being one of the 

 Committee of the (newly-foFined) Economic section of the 

 Association. He, in a stentorian voice, let off his 

 theological venom. Then jumped up Kichard Greswell 3 

 with a thin voice, saying much the same, but speaking as 

 a scholar ; but we did not merely want any theological 

 discussion, so we shouted them down. Then a Mr. 

 Dingle got up and tried to show that Darwin would have 

 done much better if he had taken him into consultation. 

 He used the blackboard and began a mathematical 

 demonstration on the question " Let this point A be 

 man, and let that point B be the mawnkey." He got no 

 further ; he was shouted down with cries of " mawnkey." 

 None of these had spoken more than three minutes. It 

 was when these were shouted down that Henslow said he 

 must demand that the discussion should rest on scientific 

 grounds only. 



1 Life of JJarwin, t.c. 



2 Canon of Durham. 



8 Rev. Richard Greswell, B.D., Tutor of Worcester College. 



