ABSTRACT
Apart from its small paid labour force, the Excavation Council’s officers have all been honorary. It is impossible to emphasise too strongly how much is owing to colleagues who have found time in busy lives taken up with other things to further the Council’s work. Too often the wrong names appear in newspapers. The plain truth is that no organisation functioning as the Excavation Council has over this unbroken period, could have survived without either the weekly attention to its affairs of honorary secretaries and honorary treasurers or the thought given to matters of policy and procedure by chairmen and members of committees. Expressions of personal gratitude appear elsewhere; in the meantime the thanks of all interested in London’s history should go to the officers and members of the Council for their work on its behalf.
