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ROYAL NUMISMATIC SOCIETY. 23
the production of a well-known artist whose paintings already
adorned the walls of churches in his native city of Verona
and in Ferrara, as well as those of the Doge's Palace at Venice.
In your work On the Portrait Medals of Italian Artists of
the Renaissance, published for the Medici Society in 1912,
you have pursued, with great success, a special branch of the
subject, and have made an exhaustive collection of the
material both in private and public possession.
Your latest work, just issued from the Clarendon Press,
on The Development of Arabic Numerals in Europe, is
a model of scientific presentment and supplies a useful
and much needed synopsis of the principal data relating
to this interesting subject.
In conclusion, while handing you this small token of our
high appreciation, I can only express a hope, in the name
of our Society, that you may continue for many years yet
to hold the Keepership of the Medal Koom and to pursue
your great illustrative work.
On receiving the Medal, Mr. Hill replied :
ME. PRESIDENT, Miss FARQUHAR AND GENTLEMEN, In
thanking the Society, and more especially you, Sir Arthur
Evans, for your too nattering words, I must confess that
when Mr. Allan first conveyed to me the news that the
Council of the Koyal Numismatic Society had done me the
signal honour of awarding me the Medal for this year,
my surprise and gratification were tempered with no
small degree of confusion. In the list of your medallists
are to be found the names of practically all the most dis-
tinguished numismatists of the last generation in Europe
and in this country. Even for one whose modesty has
become somewhat case-hardened by more than twenty years
of service in a Government office, it is embarrassing to be
introduced into such a company. Even if he accepts, as he
is bound to accept, the verdict of the Council as to his