X Club

The X Club was a dining club of nine men who supported the theories of natural selection and academic liberalism in late 19th-century England. Thomas Henry Huxley was the initiator: he called the first meeting for 3 November 1864. The club met in London once a month—except in July, August and September—from November 1864 until March 1893, and its members are believed to have wielded much influence over scientific thought. The members of the club were George Busk, Edward Frankland, Thomas Archer Hirst, Joseph Dalton Hooker, Thomas Henry Huxley, John Lubbock, Herbert Spencer, William Spottiswoode, and John Tyndall, united by a "devotion to science, pure and free, untrammelled by religious dogmas."

The nine men who would compose the X Club already knew each other well. By the 1860s, friendships had turned the group into a social network, and the men often dined and went on holidays together. After Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species was published in 1859, the men began working together to aid the cause for naturalism and natural history. They backed the liberal Anglican movement that emerged in the early 1860s, and both privately and publicly supported the leaders of the movement.

List of X-Men members

The X-Men are a team of mutant superheroes, published in comic books by Marvel Comics.

Notation:

Official teams

Original X-Men (1963–1970)

Later recruits (1975–1999)

2000s recruits

Other status

X-Men substitute teams

New Mutants Graduate X-Men (1986)

Muir Island X-Men (1989)

Phalanx Invasion X-Men (1994)

Mannite Rescue X-Men (1999)

Genoshan Assault X-Men (2001)

Street Team X-Men (2004)

X-Men-in-Training (2006–present)

X-Force (X-Men Strike Team) (2007–2014)

X-Club/Science Team (2009–2012)

The Lights (2010–2012)

X-Men splinter teams

New Mutants (1982–1991)

X-Force (Cable Founded) (1991–2001 and 2012-2015)

X-Factor (1986–1998 and 2005–2014)

Excalibur (1987–1998, 2001, and 2004–2007)

Generation X (1994–2001)

X-Corporation (2001–2005)

Xavier Institute Students

It was stated that there were 182 Xavier Institute students enrolled before M-Day (2006), after which they were reduced to 26, including X-23 (plus Kid Omega in Beast's lab). Those who did not show up in New X-Men, vol. 2 #23 (2006) are most likely depowered or even dead (42 died on the bus explosion in New X-Men, vol. 2 #23 [2006]).