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THE famous occasion when T. H. Huxley crossed swords with Samuel Wilberforce, at the 1860 Oxford meeting of the British Association, has been often described; and recently D. J. Foskett has published1 Huxley's contemporary account of the encounter. There has recently come to light the draft (in a box file in the basement of the Zoology Department of the Imperial College of Science and Technology) of a note sent by Huxley to Wilberforce early in 1861, as follows: The Athenaeum. Jany 3rd, 1861.
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BIBBY, C. The Huxley-Wilberforce Debate: a Postscript. Nature 176, 363 (1955). https://doi.org/10.1038/176363a0
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