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grave matter were no less numerous than the members 

 indeed more so we finally accepted the happy suggestion 

 of our mathematicians to call it the x Club ; and the 

 proposal of some genius among us, that we should have no 

 rules, save the unwritten law not to have any, was carried 

 by acclamation. 



Besides Huxley, the members of the club were as 

 follows : 



George Busk, F.E.S. (1807-87), then secretary of 

 the Linnean Society, a skilful anatomist. 1 



Edward Frankland (1825-1899), For. Sec. E.S., 

 K.C.B., then Professor of Chemistry in the Royal 

 Institution, and afterwards at the Royal College of 

 Science. 



Thomas Archer Hirst, F.R.S., then mathematical 

 master at University College School. 2 



Joseph Dalton Hooker, F.R.S., K. C.S.I., Pres. R.S. 

 1873, the great botanist, then Assistant Director at 

 Kew Gardens to his father, Sir William Hooker. 



Sir John Lubbock, Bart., F.R.S., M.P., now Lord 

 Avebury, the youngest of the nine, who had already 

 made his mark in archaeology, and was then preparing 

 to bring out his Prehistoric Times. 



1 He served as surgeon to the hospital ship Dreadnought at 

 Greenwich till 1856, when he resigned, and, retiring from practice, 

 devoted himself to scientific pursuits, and was elected President of 

 the College of Surgeons in 1871. 



2 In 1865 appointed Professor of Physics ; in 1867, of Pure 

 Mathematics, at University College, London ; and from 1873 to 

 1 883 Director of Naval Studies at the Royal Naval College, Green- 

 wich ; an old Marburg student, and intimate friend of Tyndall, 

 whom he had succeeded at Queenwood College in 1853. He died 

 in 1892. 



