196 LIFE OF PROFESSOR HUXLEY chap, xiv 



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 roll- 

 ing." 



An hour or more that paper lasted, and then discus- 

 sion 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 meet- 

 ing ; 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 Farrarf) a layman from 

 Brompton, who gave his name as being one of the Committee 

 of the (newly formed) Economic section of the Association. 

 He, in a stentorian voice, let off his theological venom. Then 

 jumped up Richard Greswell X 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. 



Then there were calls for the Bishop, but he rose and said 

 he understood his friend Professor Beale had something to say 

 iirst. Beale, who was an excellent histologist, spoke to the effect 

 that the new theory ought to meet with fair discussion, but 

 added, with great modesty, that he himself had not sufficient 

 knowledge to discuss the subject adequately. Then the Bishop 

 spoke the speech that you know, and the question about his 

 mother being an ape, or his grandmother. 



From the scientific point of view, the speech was of 

 small value. It was evident from his mode of handhng the 

 subject that he had been " crammed up to the throat," and 



* Life of Darwin, I.e. \ Canon of Durham. 



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



