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obligations which we owe to Antiquity; and
if it should convince some precocious youth, of New England who
assumes the toga virilis before he comes to years of
discretion, that his grandmother really was not ignorant of that
problem which he takes upon himself to teach her, before he was
born.
I thank this great Meeting for the courtesy with
which they have listened to my crude remarks, and beg to submit
the Resolution I have proposed for their adoption:—
"That, in compliance with the foregoing
Resolution, and in conformity with the wishes expressed by the
Committee in their Report, every effort he made for the
publication of the first Volume of the Society's Transactions
before the 1st of next September; and that each Member be entitled
to one copy thereof, provided his subscription be not in
arrear."
[Carried unanimously.]
The sixth Resolution was proposed by G. WARDE NORMAN, Esq., who
said—
A Resolution has been placed in my hands which I have
great pleasure in submitting to the Meeting. Its object is to
suggest the propriety of establishing a special fund for the
purpose of defraying any extra expense which might be beneficially
employed in the woodcuts and engravings required in the
illustration of the Society and publications. Any contributions
towards this fund would of course be voluntary.
In order that a Society such as ours should create a
widely extended interest, and enrol in its ranks a numerous body
of subscribers, embracing, as we hope ours may, persons of various
conditions as to station and fortune, it is essential that the
ordinary subscription shall be moderate in amount. The sum
proposed in our Rules is fixed in conformity to this
consideration, and might suffice for the necessary expenses of the
Society, including the publication of a yearly Volume of very
modest pretensions ; but it would undoubtedly be
insufficient for the production of a volume in point of typography
and illustrations such as the Kentish Archaeological Society would
wish to present to its Members and to the Public.
It seems to me, then, that we adopt a wise course in
appealing to the liberality of those who may feel disposed to add
to the ordinary income of the Society by contributions in addition
to their subscription, with a view to increase the usefulness
and
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