Genre:

Proceedings, Spoof

Subjects:

Archaeology, Societies

    Claims that the 'Archaeologist's Progress' is notorious for such absurdities as tracing 'the bees'-wing in a bottle of port at Newark to the bees that swarmed about the mouth of Plato. Notes Professor Pinchy's support for the archaeologists' claim that eating and drinking were 'necessities of human nature'. Reports his proposal that the archaeologists should, the following year, 'sit upon Dorking fowls—a subject hitherto neglected', and consider similarly trivial subjects, such as 'the brawn of Canterbury' and the 'sausages of Epping'.