Punch,  58 (1870), 217.

Mental Athletic Sports

Anon

Genre:

Announcement, Spoof

Subjects:

Societies, Geology, Physiology, Scientific Practitioners


    Announces a recent meeting of the 'Intellectual Gymnasts, a Society principally consisting of Geologists, and Physiological Philosophers', many of whom 'exhibited the most wonderful capacity of jumping at conclusions'.



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