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Excerpt from The Antiquaries Journal, 1921, Vol. 1 The present volume represents a new departure in the history Of the Society of Antiquaries, and will, it is hoped, not only be found more useful by the Fellows, but enlist the interest and support of the general public in touch with antiquarian matters. A good many years ago I advocated an extension Of our Proceedings on lines of this kind, but the conditions of the time were not favourable, and it was found to be impossible then to make any useful change. Now, however, when so many of our cherished traditions must perforce be abandoned, the opportunity has been seized to supplement changes arising from necessity with others tending to the advantage of the Society and of our studies. Our Proceedings have up to the present time contained only such matter as the title indicates; a bare record of events, some of the papers read at our meetings, and, for the last sixteen years, the discussions that followed. The resulting volumes have been of undoubted interest, and from the great variety of the matter it is probable that Proceedings have'been more read and consulted than Archaeologia. The Council, however, has felt that the Society might reason ably demand more from its officers than this merely domestic chronicle. The disappearance of one journal after another that had for years supplied information on antiquarian matters is another reason for the present undertaking. Moreover, the changes impending in the methods and constitution of the Society itself will call for a corresponding adaptation of our publications to the needs of our new environment; and these changes are of a nature to enlist the support -of the outside public, a point to be considered when our normal expenditure is apt to exceed our income. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.