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Then there was his work as chairman of the History and Law committee of the Board of Celtic Studies. In this capacity he not only edited his committee's section of the Board's Bulletin, but he played a great part in helping to direct its general publications policy, and a still greater in compiling the new edition of the Bibliography of the History of Wales published in 1962. It is also fitting that we should remember here that he, if anyone, was the 'onlie begetter' of this REVIEW, having early seen the need for such a publication and strongly pressed its claims on the Board of Celtic Studies. From the moment of his return to Bangor, as we have seen, he took a lively interest in the county's Historical Society, eventually becoming its president. In a wider field, he was an active member of the Historic Buildings Council for Wales, and he had not long since been appointed to an important working party on the publication of the Public Records. All this cannot compensate for the loss, one might almost say in mid- career, of a scholar of distinction and judgement who had so much still to contribute in his own fields of study; still less for the loss of one who, to many readers of THE WELSH HISTORY REVIEW, was a staunch friend and a welcome companion, whether in the gay vein of raconteur at which he excelled equally in Welsh or English, or in the more reflective mood that provokes exchange of ideas. A. H. DODD.