Reference to Sir George Darwin naturally directs one's thoughts to the celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the first publication of the Theory of Natural Selection. It was at a meeting of the Linnean Society jast fifty years azo that a joint essay by Charles Varwin and Alfred Russel Wallace on the "Tendency of Forms and Species. to Form Varieties" was read; and a most interesting feature at the Jubilee celebration of this ent by the Linnean Society on Wednesday last was that Alfred Russel Wallace—now in his eighty-fourth year—was present to receive the medal struck by the Society in commemoration of the event, bearing the features: of Darwin on one side and his own on the other. Interesting also wax the circumstance that among those present were four sons of Dr. Wallace's more famous colleague in the production of that paper, three of whom have risen to high distinction in science—Sir George Darwin, Dr. Francis Darwin and "Major Leonard Darwin. Dr. Wallace, in a modest speech which was listened to with intense pleasure cleared up finally the disputed question as to the original authorship lof the theory. Dr. Wallace told us that he arrived at his conclusions quite independently of Darwin, but many years later than Darwin. The great naturalist did not publish his theory for years after he had propounded it, and was then with characteristic modesty quite willing that Wallace should have the entire credit for its inception, sou" SIEVIER AT now sTREET.
Mr. Robert Sievier of the " Winning Post," was again before the magistrate at Bow Street yesterday, when Mr.
The Chelsea Pageant has been succeeded this week by a " Gloucester-ire Pageant" at Cheltenham, and it is to be followed in a week or two by another amid the rains of Pevensey Castle, close by the spot where oar Norman conqueror first set foot in England. Yesterday a great fate was opened in old Raoelagh Garden grounds of "helena Hospital, of Earl Roberts' Veterans'
Fund, and this promises to be the greatest charity fete of the year. All these rival attractions, "however, seem scarcely to affect attendance at the Franco-Briti Exhibition. The Qoeen paid it an unannounced visit the other day, and mixed freely in the crowds of even taking " ride on the scenic railway—a sort of glorified switchback, It was some time before Her Majesty was generally recognized; but after a time the word went round and then it #000 ie impossible for make her way through the crowds that swarmed up to catch a glimpse and she escaped as quickly as It speaks Majesty's youthful energy that she had been to the National Rose Show in the Botanic Gardens in Regent's Park earlier in the day, and that later she went to a dinner party at Lord and Lady Lonsdal
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