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believe, represent it in his sole person rather than 

 pass the day over," only one more meeting took 

 place, in the following month. With five of the 

 six survivors domiciled far from town, meeting after 

 meeting fell through, until the treasurer wrote, " My 

 idea is that it is best to let it die out unobserved, 

 and say nothing about its decease to any one." 



Thus it came to pass that the March meeting of 

 the club in 1892 remained its last. No ceremony 

 ushered it out of existence. Its end exemplified a 

 saying of Sir J. Hooker's, " At our ages clubs are an 

 anachronism." It had met 240 times, yet, curious to 

 say, although the average attendance up to 1883 was 

 seven out of nine, the full strength of the club only 

 met on twenty-seven occasions. 



