Anniversary Address
Mortimer Wheeler
On 1st July 1858 Charles Darwin and Alfred Russell Wallace laid before the Linnean Society their independent but closely approximate theories of biological evolution. Next year centenary that event—I suppose greatest intellectual event nineteenth century—will be celebrated in a variety ways places. The steadfast gaze Prince Consort, from beneath his gilded tabernacle Kensington Gardens, will encompass an international throng celebrants at doors great rotunda across road; we may imagine puzzled inquiring spirit hovering trifle uneasily over commemoration which marked, if not darkened, declining years. I trust ourselves shall, proper time, respectfully recall moment was to mean only less humanistic than sciences.
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