258 The Twenty-Fourth Annual Meeting. 
—of “ Cold-kitchen-hill,’” which may be cold enough at times, but 
where there is no kitchen that I am aware of. I mentioned coin 
just now. Most people understand what pounds, shillings, and 
pence are, but not why they are so called. There is, in fact, not 
only much that is amusing, but also much that is instructive in the 
Archeology -of Words. But there is something more important 
still. Our common speech, like the coin of the realm, wears out, 
and requires to be renewed from time to time, as the value and 
meaning become effaced. The changes and defects which Time and 
use have produced in the English language, are now being rectified 
by those who are employed in revising the English translation of 
the Bible. Time has so altered the use, and therefore the meaning, 
of words, that there are many in our present translation, which bear, 
to modern ears, a sense very different from, and, in some cases, 
exactly the contrary of that which they conveyed at the time when 
the translation was made. Biblical scholars, then, are Archzologists 
of a very important kind, engaged in a most delicate task, in which 
they carry with them the sympathy and the best wishes of all 
thoughtful people. In this department you have some of our most 
eminent scholars and critics employed. Others are associated in re- 
producing the text of our earliest English writers; in correcting 
and elucidating that of Chaucer and Shakespeare, two men who 
have done, perhaps, more than all others towards settling the English 
language. There are also, in almost every country, industrious 
antiquaries forming glossaries and vocabularies of provincial words. 
From single Words the next step is to Dialects and Tongues. Here 
you have again very eminent archeologists at work, such as Pro- 
fessor Max Miiller and Prince Lucien Bonaparte, whose labours 
bring us up into a higher study, that of Ethnology, or the history 
and connection of nations. 
Take another example of the use of archxological research: the 
case of History. Much of this must always be taken at second- 
hand, from older writers or chroniclers, who, in their day copied 
from those who lived before them; and if any new history of an old 
period is now written, it will be (in some measure at any rate), 
owing to fresh matter having been discovered; which, when carefully 
