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Anniversary Address

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 November 2011

Mortimer Wheeler
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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 the centenary of that event—I suppose the greatest intellectual event of the nineteenth century—will be celebrated in a variety of ways and places. The steadfast gaze of the Prince Consort, from beneath his gilded tabernacle in Kensington Gardens, will encompass an international throng of celebrants at the doors of his great rotunda across the road; and we may imagine his puzzled but inquiring spirit hovering a trifle uneasily over the commemoration of an event which marked, if not darkened, his declining years. I trust that we ourselves shall, at the proper time, respectfully recall a moment which was to mean only less to the humanistic than to the biological sciences.

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Research Article
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The Antiquaries Journal , Volume 37 , Issue 3-4 , July 1957 , pp. 121 - 130
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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1957

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page 125 note 1 Joan Evans, History of the Society of Antiquaries, p. 40.

page 126 note 1 Antiq. Journ. ix (1929), 349–53.Google Scholar

page 127 note 1 Congress of Archaeological Societies, First Report of the Research Committee (1931) (for 1930).Google Scholar

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page 128 note 1 Inventaria Archaeologica (International Congress of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Sciences, 1955— ).