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NOTE ON THE 
PROSPECTUS OF PROFESSOR EDWARD FORBES’ 
“OINEROMATHIC” CLUB. 
By MAY ALLEN, B.A., 
Sub-Librarian in the Faculty of Science, 
University of Liverpool. 
[Read December 10th, 1915.] 
In Professor Herdman’s address on “ The Life and Work 
of Edward Forbes,” read at the last meeting of the Society, 
reference was made to the Students’ Club, “‘ The Brotherhood 
of the Magi,” formed by Edward Forbes and his friends at 
the University of Edmburgh in 1835, which had for its symbol 
a silver triangle, on which was engraved “OINO> EPOS 
MA®@HSI1>.” This reminded me that there had recently 
been found, slipped into a book in the Departmental Library 
of Zoology, a two page lithographed circular, which is evidently 
the prospectus of Forbes’ “Oineromathic”’ Club, and I think 
it will be of interest to reproduce in Forbes’ Centenary Year 
this literary and scientific curiosity of which it is probable that 
few, if any, other copies survive. 
The book in which the circular was found (Forbes’ 
“Literary Papers,’ London, 1855) belonged to the late Mr. 
John Aikin, of Liverpool, who spent the early years of his life 
in the Isle of Man, and who probably made friends with Forbes 
when they were school boys together there. This friendship 
was continued, for in 1838 we hear of Forbes writing from 
Edinburgh to Mr. Aikin and telling him of the progress of his 
‘“ Malacologia Monensis,” and it was probably about this time 
that Forbes sent him a copy of the prospectus of the ‘‘ Omero- 
mathic ” Club, which he may subsequently have slipped into 
where it has been for over 60 years. 
b) 
the “ Literary Papers,’ 
