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by numbers, so that every specimen may be said in some degree to 
help to illustrate the original or the natural history of our county. 
“Your Committee concludes the Report by once more urging on 
its many members in all parts of the county continued and careful 
observation of objects of interest in their respective localities ; and 
by again inviting communication with the Honorary Secretaries on 
all matters which shall come under their notice which shall tend to 
elucidate the past history of our county, or increase our acquaintance 
with its natural history.” 
On the motion of the Cuarrman, the Report was adopted and 
ordered to be printed; the Vice-Presidents of the Society, the 
General Secretaries, the Local Secretaries, and Committee were re- 
elected, and other formal business of the Society disposed of ; and 
then the President addressed the meeting as follows :— 
Ladies and Gentlemen,—It gives me the greatest pleasure to 
appear before you to day, not only from the position in which I find 
myself as President of the Society, but as a fellow archxologist who 
is anxious to do his best to instruct and give you pleasure, and who 
is now much gratified at seeing so many friends present, ready to 
afford him encouragement and support. (Hear, hear.) ‘This is 
actually the 19th anniversary of our Society, and it is with pride 
that I am able to tell you, once more, of the complete success which 
has crowned all our endeavours. Again we rally round us the best 
literary genius—the deep searcher of antiquarian lore,.and the more 
humble but not less useful delver among our buried treasures. But 
also, I am proud to say, that we have gained the confidence of the 
great and wealthy people of this county. No longer is the anti- 
quary turned away from the door with an admonition to retire to 
some place popularly supposed to be exceedingly hot—(laughter)— 
but invited to enter and inspect for himself, to then place on record 
what he has seen, and to publish it for the benefit of all. Nor does 
the archeologist digest only the ponderous tomes which fill the 
libraries of our great mansions, and painfully extract sweetness from 
a musty parchment! He sips a sweetness also from a cup of nectar 
which is most generously put to his weary lips, and he (but we must 
not make this public) digests a very good dinner at the expense of 
