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"MULTORUM MANIBUS GRANDE LEVATUR ONUS." — Ovid. 



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\Mead at the Malrnesbury Meeting, July 11th, WOO.'] 



N Archaeological 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 ar etiological addresses. 

 More than that, they are a god-send for those who have to be 

 archseologically 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 

 Eamsbury 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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