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Article: CHALK TALK
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- July 11, 1988
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In the summer of 1868, the British Association for the Advancement
of Science held its annual meeting in the town of Norwich, 90 miles
northeast of London. At that meeting, Thomas Henry Huxley, one of the
greatest natural historians of his day and a champion of Drawin's new
theory of evolution, delivered a talk entitled "On a Piece of Chalk."
His audience was the ordinary workingmen of the town.
Huxley's subject was engagingly simple -- and familiar. Some of
the carpenters in the audience may have carried a piece of Norwich
chalk in their pockets. The town is built upon chalk, the same
extensive beds of soft, white rock that give England its poetic name -
- Albion.
From a piece of Norwich ...