372 LIFE OF PROFESSOR HUXLEY CHAP. XVIII 



d d liars, and experts. Huxley gave account of 

 civil list pension. Sat to the unexampled hour of 

 10 P.M., except Lubbock, who had to go to 

 Linnean." 



For some time there was a summer meeting which 

 consisted of a week-end excursion of members and 

 their wives (x's+yv's, as the correct formula ran) to 

 some place like Burnham or Maidenhead, Oxford or 

 Windsor; but this grew increasingly difficult to 

 arrange, and dropped before very long. 



Guests were not excluded from the dinners of the 

 club; men of science or letters of almost every 

 nationality dined with the x at one time or another ; 

 Darwin, W. K. Clifford, Colenso, Strachey, Tolle- 

 mache, Helps ; Professors Bain, Masson, Robertson 

 Smith, and Bentham the botanist, Mr. John Morley, 

 Sir D. Galton, Mr. Jodrell, the founder of several 

 scientific lectureships; Dr. Klein; the Americans 

 Marsh, Gilman, A. Agassiz, and Youmans, the latter 

 of whom met here several of the contributors to the 

 International Science Series organised by him ; and 

 continental representatives, as Helmholtz, Laugel, 

 and Cornu. 



Small as the club was, the members of it were 

 destined to play a considerable part in the history of 

 English science. Five of them received the Royal 

 Medal; three the Copley; one the Rumford; six 

 were Presidents of the British Association; three 

 Associates of the Institute of France; and from 

 amongst them the Royal Society chose a Secretary, a 



