Abstract
NO other Club vies with the Athenaeum in its interest to scientific men. Faraday was its first secretary, Humphry Davy and Thomas Young were on its first committee; Darwin and Huxley have their portraits on its walls. To four generations of men of science it has been almost a matter of course to belong to it; the young and ambitious have peeped in at its door, and the old have found consolation in looking out of the window. Moreover, scientific men neither monopolise it nor even predominate in it; they share the Club, vastly to their own advantage, with men of letters and affairs, with statesmen, bishops, judges, artists, scholars; with most of those who, for better or for worse, represent the learning of our time and country.
History of the Athenceum, 1824–1925.
By Humphry Ward. Pp. xii + 370 + 32 plates. (London: Printed for the Club, 1926.)
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T., D. History of the Athenceum, 1824–1925 . Nature 117, 814–818 (1926). https://doi.org/10.1038/117814a0
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