THE 
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“MULTORUM MANIBUS GRANDE LEVATUR ONUS.”’—Ovid. 
JUNE; 1901. 
Anangueal Address of the Aight Aet. 
the Hord Mishop of Aristol, 
As Presivent of the Society. 
[Read at the Malmesbury Meeting, July 11th, 1900.) 
N Archeological Society can hardly claim that a Presidential 
address shall each year find novelties with which to deal. 
There are, of course, discoveries, from time to time, revelations 
from ages that are past. Such discoveries and revelations are a 
god-send for those who have to make archeological addresses. 
More than that, they are a god-send for those who have to be 
archeeologically addressed. Happy must be the President for 
whom the year has provided something to say. Happy might be 
the audience whose President has been provided with something 
to say. If only good fortune had delayed the restoration of 
-Ramsbury Church till this year, that great museum of important 
Anglo-Saxon remains would have afforded material for more than 
one address. 
In default of discoveries, Presidents will more and more be 
‘driven into discussions of details bearing upon familiar problems. 
Such a course keeps the problems alive, and has the effect of 
bringing them consciously before the minds of some who may 
not hitherto have found in them the interest which knowledge 
usually gives. 
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