Editing Philip Henry Gosse (section)

==Opposition to Gosse==
In his study of the [[Royal Society]] of London in the second half of the nineteenth century, Andrew John Harrison argued that for well over a dozen years after 1870, Victorian Britain’s premier scientific body was controlled by scientists determined to promote [[Darwinism]] and [[Metaphysical naturalism|agnostic naturalism]].<ref>A. J. Harrison (1988), ''[https://oro.open.ac.uk/57044/1/DX087475.pdf Scientific Naturalists and the government of the Royal Society 1850-1900].''</ref>  According to Douglas Wertheimer, among those boycotted were the British neurologist [[Henry Charlton Bastian|H.C. Bastian]], the Canadian geologist [[John William Dawson|J.W. Dawson]], and Gosse.<ref> Wertheimer, ''Philip Henry Gosse: A Biography,'' pages 358-365.</ref> 

Andrew John Harrison asserts that, in Gosse’s situation, the snub came the year after  the publication of ''Omphalos'', when Gosse submitted a paper for publication to the Royal Society.<ref>A. J. Harrison (1988), ''Scientific Naturalists and the government of the Royal Society,'' p.181 and chapter IV.</ref> Douglas Wertheimer provides evidence that it was continued in 1881 (when Gosse submitted research to the Royal Society on [[Lepidoptera genitalia|Lepidoptera]]), and again during the period 1886-89 (when he co-published on Rotifera).<ref> Wertheimer, ''Philip Henry Gosse: A Biography,'' pages 545-61, 570-581.</ref>