Abstract
In July 1858 the celebrated paper ‘On the tendency of species to form varieties, and on the perpetuation of varieties and species by natural means of selection’, by Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace, was read at a meeting of the Linnean Society. To mark the centenary of this event, which coincided with the meeting in London of the XV International Zoological Congress, the Councils of the Royal Society, the Linnean Society and the Geological Society agreed to hold a special joint conversazione to honour the memory of these two great men of science. The conversazione was held on 15 July in the rooms of the three Societies. The guests, who included many delegates to the Zoological Congress and some of the descendents of Darwin and Wallace, were welcomed on arrival by the Presidents of the Royal Society (Sir Cyril Hinshelwood), the Linnean Society (Dr C. F. A. Pantin), the Geological Society (Dr C. J. Stubblefield) and the Zoological Congress (Sir Gavin de Beer).
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