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allowed to touch, has been deepened in power and interest by 

 the mere filings and chippings of science which I have been 

 allowed to finger. 



I desire that others should share what has been a blessing to 

 me, and I want every school of higher education to work (if it 

 were ever so little of) these great subjects into their teaching. 



Every boy and every girl of grammar and high school who 

 has the least strain of anything which can be called culture, 

 should be taught something of science, something of archaeology. 



As a preliminary, here, I wish some parties of the more intelli- 

 gent pupils might be formed, and conducted with explanations 

 round our museum from term to term, and then I hope that 

 lectures like those of Mr. CoUins's may be resumed, be more wisely 

 valued, better attended, and that our laboratories and collections 

 may subserve the intellectual and spiritual progress (I cannot 

 separate them) of those of whom (if I not misjudge) manv 

 generations will yet be trained in Truro. 



I have been longer than I meant to be. And now what I feel 

 most deeply I will say most briefly. It has been a great honour 

 to me to have been your President two years, and I feel it more 

 than you think, and I shall never cease to feel it. 



One of the most inspiring monuments of ancient Eome is the 

 marble Fasti — the engraved lists of her consuls, as they ruled and 

 served her year by year, — now in her Capitol. As you look on 

 many otherwise unknown names which rank among Scipios, and 

 Caesars, and Claudius, and Fabii, you say they were worthy men, 

 or they would not be in such company. So a tiro in archgeology 

 and one who in science can only peep under the curtains at the 

 feet of the horses, now has his narhe on the Fasti with many of 

 your very best Cornishmen, and has you to thank for it. 



