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that they designed the function that year to 

 have something of the character of a welcome 

 to Natural Science, and this, of course, they 

 were the better able to impart to it with Lord 

 Avebury as one of the guests. Presumably it 

 was to be taken as a sign of a more liberal and 

 modern outlook of the School beyond the classical 

 boundaries. There were also at the dinner 

 Professor H. Miers, the Waynflete Professor of 

 Mineralogy at Oxford, and Professor G. C. 

 Bourne, the Linacre Professor of Comparative 

 Anatomy at the same University — old Etonians, 

 both. 



