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Anniversary Address

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 January 2012

Cyril Fox
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I have not found it easy, in the annual chronicles which I have already had the honour to recount, to decide which activity, which occasion, should have pride of place. In preparing this third anniversary address I had no doubts; the increased comfort provided for Fellows (until heating of any sort was denied us) is my opening theme. I extol not only the improved lighting but more particularly the circulating warmth in the library during the past severe winter. The effect on Man of radiant heat in a library may, I hope, be likened to that of sherris sack in a tavern, concerning which you will recall the immortal prognosis: ‘it ascends even into the brain, making it apprehensive, quick, forgetive, full of nimble, fiery, and delectable shapes’.

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Research Article
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The Antiquaries Journal , Volume 27 , Issue 3-4 , October 1947 , pp. 113 - 119
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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1947

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page 114 note 1 The Lord President of the Council revoked as from 30th April 1947 the directions given under the Act in the case of the Society.

page 118 note 1 Our Fellow Mr. John Allan, in kind response to a request for information about this coin, familiar to readers of Déchelette's Manuel (ii, Fig. 504, p. 1190), writes: ‘None of the authorities gives a very definite date for this coin of the Remi. One would put it about the middle of the first century B.C.— say, between 60 and 30 b.c. If, as has been suggested with great probability, the three heads are taken from a coin with the heads of the Triumvirs, Octavian, Antony and Lepidus, it would be later than 43 B.C. The chariot might have been copied any time from 150 to 50 B.C. While usually in this very common type we have only the disjecta membra of the copy of a copy of the original chariot on a Roman denarius, we have here an attempt to represent a definite type of chariot.’