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All
this
is
from
my
hurried
notes
taken
at
the
time
,
which
give
little
notion
of
the
absolute
chaos
to
which
the
assembly
had
by
this
time
been
reduced
.
So
terrific
was
the
uproar
that
several
ladies
had
already
beaten
a
hurried
retreat
.
Grave
and
reverend
seniors
seemed
to
have
caught
the
prevailing
spirit
as
badly
as
the
students
,
and
I
saw
white-bearded
men
rising
and
shaking
their
fists
at
the
obdurate
Professor
.
The
whole
great
audience
seethed
and
simmered
like
a
boiling
pot
.
The
Professor
took
a
step
forward
and
raised
both
his
hands
.
There
was
something
so
big
and
arresting
and
virile
in
the
man
that
the
clatter
and
shouting
died
gradually
away
before
his
commanding
gesture
and
his
masterful
eyes
.
He
seemed
to
have
a
definite
message
.
They
hushed
to
hear
it
.
"
I
will
not
detain
you
,
"
he
said
.
"
It
is
not
worth
it
.
Truth
is
truth
,
and
the
noise
of
a
number
of
foolish
young
men
--
and
,
I
fear
I
must
add
,
of
their
equally
foolish
seniors
--
can
not
affect
the
matter
.
I
claim
that
I
have
opened
a
new
field
of
science
.
You
dispute
it
.
"
(
Cheers
.
)
"
Then
I
put
you
to
the
test
.
Will
you
accredit
one
or
more
of
your
own
number
to
go
out
as
your
representatives
and
test
my
statement
in
your
name
?
"
Mr.
Summerlee
,
the
veteran
Professor
of
Comparative
Anatomy
,
rose
among
the
audience
,
a
tall
,
thin
,
bitter
man
,
with
the
withered
aspect
of
a
theologian
.
He
wished
,
he
said
,
to
ask
Professor
Challenger
whether
the
results
to
which
he
had
alluded
in
his
remarks
had
been
obtained
during
a
journey
to
the
headwaters
of
the
Amazon
made
by
him
two
years
before
.
Professor
Challenger
answered
that
they
had
.
Mr.
Summerlee
desired
to
know
how
it
was
that
Professor
Challenger
claimed
to
have
made
discoveries
in
those
regions
which
had
been
overlooked
by
Wallace
,
Bates
,
and
other
previous
explorers
of
established
scientific
repute
.
Professor
Challenger
answered
that
Mr.
Summerlee
appeared
to
be
confusing
the
Amazon
with
the
Thames
;
that
it
was
in
reality
a
somewhat
larger
river
;
that
Mr.
Summerlee
might
be
interested
to
know
that
with
the
Orinoco
,
which
communicated
with
it
,
some
fifty
thousand
miles
of
country
were
opened
up
,
and
that
in
so
vast
a
space
it
was
not
impossible
for
one
person
to
find
what
another
had
missed
.
Mr.
Summerlee
declared
,
with
an
acid
smile
,
that
he
fully
appreciated
the
difference
between
the
Thames
and
the
Amazon
,
which
lay
in
the
fact
that
any
assertion
about
the
former
could
be
tested
,
while
about
the
latter
it
could
not
.
He
would
be
obliged
if
Professor
Challenger
would
give
the
latitude
and
the
longitude
of
the
country
in
which
prehistoric
animals
were
to
be
found
.
Professor
Challenger
replied
that
he
reserved
such
information
for
good
reasons
of
his
own
,
but
would
be
prepared
to
give
it
with
proper
precautions
to
a
committee
chosen
from
the
audience
.
Would
Mr.
Summerlee
serve
on
such
a
committee
and
test
his
story
in
person
?
Mr.
Summerlee
:
"
Yes
,
I
will
.
"
(
Great
cheering
.
)
