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“ Permit me again to thank yon for allowing me to he present, and to 
speak the few words I did last evening. You would observe that Professor 
Huxley did not answer my question as to whether he * was Prepared to adhere 
to the notion that the Atlantic ooze is simply a deposit, as he called it , 
nor did he tell us the supposed rate of its deposition, though he made that 
the sole criterion of the implied enormous time reqmrecl for the chalk foxma- 
tions I beg now to say, that, as Professor Huxley refused my challenge to 
set down his arguments in print, and to read them or allow them to be read 
and discussed, "in the Victoria Institute, I shall at once write a reply to his 
discourse, which I shall be glad to read in Sion College within a week, if you 
will grant me this permission. But if not, then I shall prmt m yreply, an 
take the liberty of distributing it among the members of Sion OoUege, and 
also publish it, in order to go before the only tribunal to which l I last ng 
ventured to summon Professor Huxley — namely, that of the imelli 0 ent «* 
reading general public of this country. 
“ I have the honour to be, Rev. and dear Sir, 
“ Your faithful Servant, 
“J. REDDIE, 
“ Son. Sec. Victoria Institute .” 
“ The Rev. President Rogers, Sion College, City.” 
In the Record of the 26th of November, 1867, the following paragraph 
appeared : — 
Mr. Reddie informs us, that the Rev. W. Rogers having replied to his 
letter which aDpeared in last Monday’s Record, to the effect that it is noi in 
his power to offer the use of the hall of Sion College for the purpose 
of answering Professor Huxley— the meetings there being all arranged by 
the Court, and a scheme drawn out from which he knows they are not pre- 
pared to deviate— he (Mr. R.) has replied as follows 
“ Victoria Institute, 9, Conduit Street, W. 
“ Nov. 25, 1867. 
“ Rev. and dear Sir,— In answer to your letter of the 23rd (received 
to-day), the decision in which I regret, I can only say that I have alieady 
written my reply to Professor Huxley, and it must be delivered somewhere. 
It would not, in my opinion, be honest towards the Christian public to allow 
such things as were spoken by Professor Huxley Ho be done m a corner, 
aI1 “ I°shall now consult the Council of this Society as to whether my reply 
may be read and discussed here ; and you will observe from this evenings 
Record that I have made the matter juris pubhci. 
u I have the honour to be, Rev. and dear Sir, 
“ Very faithfully yours, 
“J. REDDIE, 
“ Son. Sec. Victoria Institute .” 
“ To the Rev. President Rogers, Sion College, City.” 
Mr Reddie adds, that the Council of the Victoria Institute have decide^ 
to appropriate a Special Meeting before Christmas for discussing this subject 
of which Meeting due notice will be given. A gentleman who was p^esen 
at Sion College, and took verbatim notes of the learned Professor s remarks, 
has kindly offered to place his notes at Mr. Reddie s service. 
