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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 November 2011
Lord Carnarvon, in his Presidential Address of 1880, gave a list of Fellows who had held the office of Director. The list comprises the names of many men who distinguished themselves in the service of the Society; and I now submit to the Society such information as I have been able to get with respect to each of them.
page 59 note 1 Proceedings, 2nd S. viii. 337Google Scholar.
page 59 note 2 Preface to Treatise on Law Terms.
page 60 note 1 See Mr. Lewis Fagan's useful volume of Collectors' Marks, 1883, to which the learned librarian of the Victoria and Albert Museum has kindly referred me.
page 60 note 2 See Duplessis, Les Ventes de Tableaux, Dessins, &c, to which I have been kindly referred by Mr. Roberts, W., in Notes and Queries, 10th S. xii. 113Google Scholar.
page 62 note 1 See Le Neve's Knights.
page 62 note 2 Fam. Min. Gen. 983.
page 62 note 3 XXXV. 363.
page 64 note 1 Vol. i. 61.
page 68 note 1 Letters, vii. 427Google Scholar.
page 68 note 2 viii. 41.
page 68 note 3 x. 26.
page 68 note 4 x. 312.
page 71 note 1 Archaeologia, xv. 315Google Scholar.
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page 73 note 1 See Observations on the State of Historical Literature, by Nicolas, N. H., 1830, p. 39Google Scholar. Mr. (afterwards Sir) N. H. Nicolas had been elected on the Council in succession to Mr. Raper, deceased, on 25th June, 1827. He appears not to have been re-elected the following year, and to have withdrawn from the Society in 1829. His book is a bitter attack upon its management. The Society has always been open to this sort of cheap criticism, and does not appear to have suffered much from it.
page 74 note 1 Most of the preceding statements are derived from the unpublished MS. minutes of the Society, and I hope that they will be found of sufficient interest to encourage the Council in their resolution to print those minutes in extenso. Other statements are given on the authority of the Dictionary of National Biography, or derived from various sources. From this point the anniversary addresses of successive Presidents of the Society, as recorded in the two series of its printed Proceedings, supply most of the facts.
page 76 note 1 See Proceedings, vi. 519Google Scholar.
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page 77 note 2 Journal of the Anthropological Institute, xvii. 192, 193Google Scholar.
page 78 note 1 Now also his successor in the office of President of the Society of Antiquaries.
page 78 note 2 He also took great interest in the revival of the annual dinner of the Society of Antiquaries, and presided at Mercers' Hall and at the Holborn Restaurant.
