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Anniversary Address

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 November 2011

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In the Anniversary Address which I delivered last year I gave notice that to celebrate the 250th Anniversary of the Society's continuous existence there would be a party in this building. This took place on Thursday, 12th October 1967, between 5.30 and 8.30 p.m. and was the first occasion on which the newly decorated hall and staircase were visible in all their glory, and glorious they certainly are when compared with those sombre tones which formerly greeted us. Not only has marbling been substituted for dull green, but some of the Society's possessions have been put on view in the entrance hall. The floor has also been relaid. The general effect is a good deal more splendid and more welcoming than before. As in other matters, which will be mentioned later, the Society is very much indebted to our Vice-President, Mr. Dufty, for all the trouble he took in this business, and in your name I would wish to thank him for his pains.

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Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1968

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References

page 159 note 1 D. F. Allen, The Sark Hoard of Celtic Coins and Phalerae, read 29th February 1968.

page 160 note 1 London, Lambeth Palace Library MS. 3; see Millar, E. G., Bulletin de la Société Française pour la Reproduction des Manuscrits à Peintures, 1924Google Scholar, pls. 2–11; see also Dodwell, C. R., The Canterbury School of Illumination, Cambridge, 1954, pp. 8197Google Scholar.

page 160 note 2 Brit. Mus. Cotton MS. Nero C. iv, ff. 29, 30; see Saxl, F. and Wittkower, R., British Art and the Mediterranean, Oxford, 1948Google Scholar, pl. 24, nos. 4, 7.

page 160 note 3 Buchthal, H., Miniature Painting in the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem, Oxford, 1957Google Scholar.

page 160 note 4 Ibid., pp. 122, 123.

page 161 note 1 K. Weitzmann, ‘Icon Painting in the Crusader Kingdom’, in Dumbarton Oaks Papers, 20, pp. 51–83.

page 161 note 2 Ibid., pp. 52, 53, pl. 1.

page 161 note 3 Cf. A. B., and Wyon, A., The Great Seals of England, London, 1887, pl. v, nos. 32, 35Google Scholar.