Excerpt from International Scholarship: Presidential Address Delivered at the Annual Meeting of the British Academy, July 21, 1920

In the schemes so far put forward there are certain things which it is within our power to do. Thanks to the work already done by Dr. And Mrs. Singer, and to their willingness to place it at the dis posal of the Union, we can contribute to the Catalogue of Alchemical mss. If (as I think Is probable) the Trustees of the British Museum are willing to give their aid, we can play our part in the Corpus of Vases. The share that would fall to us in the revision or extension Of the Corpus of Latin Inscriptions is so moderate that I should not despair of our being able to undertake it, though a good deal would depend on the co-operation of the Clarendon Press. It is within the knowledge of the Academy that our late Fellow, Professor Haver field, was maturing a scheme of this nature; and we have reason to hope that his successor in the Camden Chair may be able to take it up.

Further, there are certain proposals which we might on a future occasion put before the Union. It is eminently desirable that the materials for the History of Science, prepared by Dr. And Mrs. Singer, should be made available for scholars in general and if this country provides so much of the work, other countries might be prepared to contribute to the cost. There is also another matter, already touched on at the Paris meeting last October, and involving no expense, on which international co-operation is very desirable; namely, the estab lishment of principles and regulations for the conduct of archaeological research in the Middle and Near East. 1 dealt with this subject in my address last year, and will not go over the ground again now; but I would urge that the Academy should in' due course give notice that it wishes to bring it before the Union next year, and meanwhile should prepare the way for an agreement between the countries specially concerned. This is eminently a work which our Academy may properly initiate, in view of our wide interests in the countries concerned, and in which an agreement between nations is of the first importance.

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