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in which we live, in very remote periods. We can trace the 
progress of the great Indo-European family of man by the vestiges 
left behind. 
While Sir John Lubbock and Mr. Evans have been collating 
and comparing remains found in our own island, in Europe, 
and in lesser Asia, others have pursued the same work in 
India, China, Japan and Africa. While the exertions of Mr. 
Blackmore and his public spirit has brought within easy reach 
the results of the examinations of the huge mounds in the 
Mississippi Valley, so well recorded in the proceedings of 
the Smithsonian Society, the formation of the Blackmore 
Museum at Salisbury has given a great impulse to the study of 
Prehistoric archeology. Thus while Geological investigation is 
being pushed on vigorously in every accessible region, and natural 
history has its devoted servants, Archeology is no less active 
in producing results equally valuable; Philology under the 
guidance of scholars like Max Miiller and the Germans is tracing 
out analogies in language which confirm previous history, and at 
the same time verify Archeological investigation. Modern 
research has established an affinity between Egypt and Assyria, 
and has shown how the conventional art of the one has 
acted upon the other. I would only for a moment allude to the 
institution of a most valuable Society which has lately risen into 
being, the Society for the Cultivation of Biblical Archeology, 
and state that the papers read at their Meetings have been those 
of eminent scholars, and have thrown much light upon subjects 
of the highest and holiest interest. 
Quitting now the efforts that the great scholars and — 
scientific travellers of our land are making, I must cast a 
glance at the achievements of our English and Scotch antiquaries, 
and remind this Club how much has been done at Silchester, 
since that deeply interesting spot was visited by the Club, 
under the guidance of Mr. Joyce, to whose energy is owing 
the disinterment of an ancient Romano-British city, the plan 
