...1858-9 session during which the Darwin-Wallace papers were read that 'The year which has passed . . . has not, indeed, been marked by any of those striking discoveries which at once revolutionise, so to speak, the department of science on which they bear.' Again, at the end of the...

...effect. The President of the Linnean Society, in his annual report for 1858, stated, "The year . . . has not, indeed, been marked by any of those striking...speak, the department of science on which they bear." The ornithologist Alfred Newton claimed thirty years later to have been an exception, and to have found...

...Thomas Bell (17921880) remarked that 1858 had not been a very exciting year in science. It had not "been marked by any of those striking discoveries...speak, the department of science on which they bear" (Bell 1860: vol.4, viii-ix). His grief notwithstanding, Darwin set to work abstracting a brief explanation...

...1859, the chairman did not even mention the papers. The year which has passed (...) has not, he wrote, indeed, been marked by any of those striking discoveries which at once revolutionize the department of science on which they bear.10 In 1859, quite clearly, no-one was aware of what everyone...

...society's president then ignored it. In his report for the year, the president regretted that 1858 had "not been marked by any of those striking discoveries which...speak, the department of science on which they bear." The public reacted enthusiastically when Darwin published his book Origin of The Species in 1859. The...

...comfort. The President had walked out of the meeting lamenting, as he later put it, that the year had not 'been marked by any of those striking discoveries which at once revolutionize, so to speak, [our] department of science.'8 (Although, tellingly, the Vice-President promptly struck out all talk...

...Type'. At the end of that year the society's president concluded in his annual address that it had not been 'marked by any of those striking discoveries which at once revolutionize . . . the department of science on which they bear'! Darwin, on the further urging of the same two...

...annual report of the president of the society for 1858 included the following words: "This year has not been marked by any of those striking discoveries which...speak, the department of science on which they bear." Oh well. The date 24 November 1859 saw the publication of On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural...

...1858, disapproved of what he heard, and wrote in his annual presidential report that the year had not 'been marked by any of those striking discoveries...speak, the department of science on which they bear'! A collection of CD's Beagle invertebrates stored in spirits was presented to the Zoology Museum of...

...of the year's activities, nothing of significance happened in 1858: "The year which has passed . . . has not, indeed, been marked by any of those striking...to speak, the department of science on which they bear."44 Obviously Bell and his colleagues did not grasp the significance of the theory of natural...