212 Anniversary Address. 



individual to consider it his duty to help the common 

 cause, to obtain the desired end. 



For some years there has been an innovation on our 

 original unwritten laws. I refer to meetings held beyond 

 what is considered the geographical limits of the Club. 

 Most of the members will agree with me in thinking that 

 this is likely to strengthen the Club ; the old ground has 

 been, although not by any means exhausted, indeed rather 

 otherwise, so well worked over, that a change as above in- 

 dicated, if not too freely indulged in, will give an additional 

 zest to the meetings, and enable the members, like the bee 

 in the fable, by a universal range, with long search, much 

 study, true judgment and distinction of things, to bring 

 home honey and wax. 



Our worthy Secretary, Mr Hardy, has very kindly taken 

 upon him the trouble of writing the details of each meeting, 

 which will, no doubt, prove more interesting than were I to 

 do so. 



I cannot help endorsing the opinion of my predecessor in 

 office, that a Jubilee Meeting should be held in 1881 at 

 Grant's House, where the first meeting of the Club was 

 held. Few more interesting places, in many respects, are 

 within the Club's range ; perhaps want of accommodation 

 will be the only objection, seeing that, as a rule, the meetings 

 are now so large, but that objection can, by a little fore- 

 sight, be easily overcome. 



During the current year (1880) a descriptive list of " Our 

 Ancient Monuments and the Land around them," by Chas. 

 Philip Kains-Jackson, with a preface by Sir John Lubbock, 

 Bart., F.R.S., M.P., has been published. Two of our local 

 structures are mentioned, Edin's Hall and Harefaulds in 

 Lauderdale; of the former a very meagre description is given, 

 of the latter merely the name. I only mention this here to 

 call the attention of any of the members who may have in- 

 fluence, and to induce them to use such influence in sup- 

 port of Sir John Lubbock's Bill, or any similar one if again 

 brought before Parliament, Sir John, in his preface, 



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