Talk:X Club

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 * Apart from the fact that these men ate while they talked about science, etc, this club has absolutely nothing to do with food or eating, so I have removed the tagging. EighteenFiftyNine (talk)

Removing Francis Galton from X Club membership
For these reasons. It is nine men, and Busk, Frankland, Hirst, Hooker, Huxley, Lubbock, Spencer, Spottiswoode and Tyndall make nine. Galton is not mentioned in the book written by Ruth Barton about the X club and a search of Barton's book for the name "Galton" says this ... "Galton, friend of the X Club and a potential additional member in the 1870s, represented scientific men ... " In Galton's autobiography[ https://books.google.com/books?id=npRh7kVgKHwC ] there is no mention of the X Club, to be sure I searched for only the word "club" and was given 18 results, but they were for the "Red Lion Club", the "Royal Society Club" the "Philosophical Club" the "Alpine Club" and the "Athenaeum Club" no mention of an "X club". In the book "Eugenics: Galton and after" by Blacker [ https://wellcomecollection.org/works/ex5sbhzg/items?canvas=357 ] I looked in the index and the only listing for X is for "X-rays". Possibly it wouldn't have been mentioned in a book about Eugenics, but I did look. Thanks to the Wellcome collection we can all look! So I'm not sure why Galton was added to the club, I think he might have been a perspective future member, but as the Wikipedia article states, they didn't allow new members. Also oddly Galton isn't mentioned in the Wikipedia article elsewhere either, though it does talk about the friendships between these other men and how they took on various roles over the years they met. It must have been an oversite adding in Galton. Sgerbic (talk) 03:34, 8 June 2024 (UTC)