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very soon degenerated into caricatures of the lecturer and 
fancy sketches of nymphs and gnomes. 
His friend, Hughes Bennett, who undertook to coach 
him in anatomy, tells of the many dismal evenings of yawning 
over the bones, and of how Forbes would arrange that jovial 
friends should come in and interrupt—when the textbooks 
and bones would be thrown aside and the rest of the evening 
devoted to gaiety and philosophical discussions. After which 
it need not surprise us that when summoned to appear for 
examination on a certain afternoon, he at the appointed 
time was non wnventus. 
Of course, these young men ran a journal, and, of course, 
they formed a select students’ club, the Brotherhood of 
the Magi, the symbol of which was a silver triangle on which was 
engraved OINOS, EPOS, MA@HSIS—wine, love, learning. 
Their wine was not, | think, excessive; the love was brotherly 
love; and the learning was certainly on a high level. They 
were all clever, and most of them became celebrated men. 
This “ oineromathic ’’ brotherhood they defined as “a Union 
of the Searchers after Truth.” 
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Fig. 8. The ‘‘ Oineromathic’’ Symbol—From a prospectus of the Club 
now in the Zoological Departmental Library, University of Liverpool. 
I have dwelt at some length on his student years in 
Edinburgh, as they were clearly the most stimulating and 
formative time of his life, definitely related to all he did later 
on, and brightened by friendships which persisted to the 
end. It was a lengthy student’s career—nine years—tfour 
years of medical study, which he finally abandoned in 1836 
