Thomas Henry Huxley and Samuel Wilberforce black plaque

This black commemorative plaque records: A meeting of the British Association held 30 June 1860 within this door was the scene of the memorable debate on evolution between Samuel Wilberforce Bishop of Oxford and Thomas Henry Huxley

Thomas Henry Huxley, a prominent biologist, and Samuel Wilberforce, the Bishop of Oxford, are remembered for their famous debate at the 1860 British Association meeting, where Huxley defended Darwin's theory of evolution against Wilberforce's critique, marking a significant moment in the public acceptance of evolutionary theory.