[208] The statement as to authorship was made on the authority of Robert Chambers.
[209] In a letter to Mr. Huxley my father wrote:—"Have you seen the last Saturday Review? I am very glad of the defence of you and of myself. I wish the reviewer had noticed Hooker. The reviewer, whoever he is, is a jolly good fellow, as this review and the last on me showed. He writes capitally, and understands well his subject. I wish he had slapped [the Edinburgh reviewer] a little bit harder."
[210] Man's Place in Nature, by T. H. Huxley, 1863, p. 114.
[211] See the Nat. Hist. Review, 1861.
[212] It was well known that Bishop Wilberforce was going to speak.
[213] Quarterly Review, July 1860.
[214] Sir John Lubbock also insisted on the embryological evidence for evolution.—F. D.
[215] Mr. Fawcett wrote (Macmillan's Magazine, 1860):—"The retort was so justly deserved and so inimitable in its manner, that no one who was present can ever forget the impression that it made."
[216] This agrees with Professor Victor Carus's recollection.
[217] See Professor Newton's interesting Early Days of Darwinism in Macmillan's Magazine, Feb. 1888, where the battle at Oxford is briefly described.