Aveling's dismissal from his post was officially announced in the BMJ (British Medical Journal) on 26 November 1881: "The Board of the London Hospital have dismissed Dr. E. B. Aveling from the post of lecturer on comparative anatomy at the medical school of the hospital. Dr. Aveling made a statement of the progress the class had made during his conduct of it, concluding with the assertion that the real reason for his dismissal was his avowal of certain religious and political views of an unpopular nature.""Dr Aveling and the London Hospital", in: The British Medical Journal, Vol. 2, Moo.1091, Nov. 26. 1881, p.866. It was looked upon as a crass example of the political persecution of secularists, the National Secular Society and their journal The National Reformer that was being extended to the Hall of Science as well.
