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| | The Huxley File § 3 A Sort of Firm |
 | | Professor Edward Forbes, F.R.S. A club that did not succeed was the Thorough Club, a society for the propagation of honesty in all parts of the world (1862), Huxley its chairman, Kingsley its vice-chairman. |
 | | While most of the clubs and societies Huxley belonged to were stocked with scientists, the Metaphysical Society was a different sort of firm, for it consisted of specialists of many different interests, such as Tennyson, John Ruskin, Frederic Harrison, and Cardinal Manning. |
 | | In addresses he delivered as President of the Geological Society and of the Royal Society, Huxley took account of the expirations (the "calamities") of recently deceased members. |
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