1. Huxley papers MSS, vol. 16, f. 170, Imperial College, London.
2. Oxbridge dons belabored these complementary aspects. Sedgwick dismissed ?the doctrines of spontaneous generation and transmutation of species, with all their train of monstrous consequences,? and Whewell listed four auxiliary hypotheses necessitated by the theory of transmutation: (1) the existence of monads, (2) a tendency to progressive development, (3) the force of external circumstances, and (4) spontaneous generation. Adam Sedgwick, ?Address to the Geological Society,? Proc. Geol. Soc., 1 (1834), 305; William Whewell, History of the Inductive Sciences (London: J. W. Parker, 1837), III, 578.
3. This is discussed at length in Michael Bartholomew, ?Lyell and Evolution: An Account of Lyell's Response to the Prospect of an Evolutionary Ancestry for Man,? Brit. J. Hist. Sci., 6 (1973), 261?303.
4. Lancet (1835?36: II), 844; (1836?37: I), 21.
5. M. J. S. Hodge, ?England,? in The Comparative Reception of Darwinism, ed. T. F. Glick (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1974), p. 11n18.