Oxford University Museum of Natural History
Natural history museum where Darwin's theory of evolution was famously debated in eighteen sixty.
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This guide to the Oxford University Museum of Natural History takes you back to the summer of eighteen sixty, when the building was so new its collections were not yet fully installed. A scientific meeting fills an upstairs room, Darwin's theory is on the table, and the Bishop of Oxford, Samuel Wilberforce, rises to speak against it with the biologist Thomas Huxley in the audience. Best heard in the main court, looking up toward the first-floor galleries.
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