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History of the Society of Dilettanti 115-
classical archaeology in Germany, Professor Michaelis
of Strassburg, in the monumental volume on English
private collections of antiques which he published
in 1882\ In that volume, as well as in a series
of separate papers2, Professor Michaelis told as
much of the history of the Dilettanti as could be
gathered from the historical evidences and notices
of its activity without access to its private archives.
At the present juncture of the Society's history, it conclusion.
has seemed to the members desirable that a fuller
record of its past, alike from the social and personal
and from the antiquarian and working points of
view, should be drawn up from these archives, for
the information primarily of members, and in the
second place of so many of the general public as may
be found to take an interest in the subject. The
present narrative is the result of this decision. Let
it close with the ancient toast of the Society—esto
praeclara, esto perpetua : an aspiration which will
probably be fulfilled or otherwise in proportion
as the Society may find a way, under the altered
conditions above described, to persevere in pursuit
of the ideals expressed in two other of its traditional
mottoes, seria ludo and Grecian taste and roman
spirit.
1 Ancient Marbles in Great Britain, described by Adolf Michaelis.
Translated from the German by C. A. M. Fennell, M.A. Cam-
bridge : University Press, i88x.
2 Zeitschrifi fur bildende Kunsty vol. xiv.
classical archaeology in Germany, Professor Michaelis
of Strassburg, in the monumental volume on English
private collections of antiques which he published
in 1882\ In that volume, as well as in a series
of separate papers2, Professor Michaelis told as
much of the history of the Dilettanti as could be
gathered from the historical evidences and notices
of its activity without access to its private archives.
At the present juncture of the Society's history, it conclusion.
has seemed to the members desirable that a fuller
record of its past, alike from the social and personal
and from the antiquarian and working points of
view, should be drawn up from these archives, for
the information primarily of members, and in the
second place of so many of the general public as may
be found to take an interest in the subject. The
present narrative is the result of this decision. Let
it close with the ancient toast of the Society—esto
praeclara, esto perpetua : an aspiration which will
probably be fulfilled or otherwise in proportion
as the Society may find a way, under the altered
conditions above described, to persevere in pursuit
of the ideals expressed in two other of its traditional
mottoes, seria ludo and Grecian taste and roman
spirit.
1 Ancient Marbles in Great Britain, described by Adolf Michaelis.
Translated from the German by C. A. M. Fennell, M.A. Cam-
bridge : University Press, i88x.
2 Zeitschrifi fur bildende Kunsty vol. xiv.