<!g>Brooke notes that between 1831-65 forty-one Anglican clergy held office in the B.A.; between 1866-1900 only three (Brooke, 1991, 50). So it is true that the 1860 Meeting came at a transitional time, but the transition was not much the dismissal of Christianity by science but the rise to influence of the professional scientists (of whom <!g>Huxley was the first exemplar) at the expense of the gentleman amateur.