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science, Professor Virchow, speaking at the dinner 

 given him by the English medical profession on 

 October 5, 1898, declared that in the eyes of German 

 savants it alone would suffice to secure immortal 

 reverence for his name. 



The concluding stage in the long controversy 

 raised first at Oxford was the British Association 

 meeting at Cambridge in 1862. It was here that 

 Professor (afterwards Sir W. H.) Flower made his 

 public demonstration of the existence in apes of the 

 cerebral characters said to be peculiar to man. 



From the 1st to the 9th of October Huxley stayed 

 at Cambridge as the guest of Professor Fawcett at 

 Trinity Hall, running over to Felixstow on the 5th 

 to see his wife, whose health did not allow her to 

 accompany him. 



As President of Section D he had a good deal to 

 do, and he describes the course of events in a letter 

 to Darwin : 



26 ABBEY PLACE, Oct. 9, 1862. 



MY DEAE DARWIN It is a source of sincere pleasure 

 to me to learn that anything I can say or do is a pleasure 

 to you, and I was therefore very glad to get your letter 

 at that whirligig of an association meeting the other day. 

 We all missed you, but I think it was as well you did 

 not come, for though I am pretty tough, as you know, I 

 found the pace rather killing. Nothing could exceed the 

 hospitality and kindness of the University people and 

 that, together with a great deal of speaking on the top of 

 a very bad cold, which I contrived to catch just before 

 going down, has somewhat used me up. 



Owen came down with the obvious intention of attack- 



