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EMERITUS PROFESSOR EMRYS BOWEN M.A., D.LITT., LL.D., F.S.A., F.R.G.S. Our President, Professor Emrys Bowen, died on the 8th November, 1983, aged 82. He became a member of the Society's Executive Committee in 1930, and was elected Vice-Chairman in 1947, and President in 1981. A native of Carmarthen, he became one of Cere- digion's most noted and beloved personalities. The scope of Professor Bowen's studies was wide. He was a geo- grapher, anthropologist and historian. His academic career was spent at the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, where he was Pro- fessor of Geography and Anthropology from 1946 to 1968. He achieved several academic distinctions, including the post of President of the Institute of British Geographers in 1958, and President of the Geo- graphical Association in 1962. In 1970 he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Literature by the University of Wales. Professor Bowen contributed an article on "Cardiganshire in Pre- historic Times" (Vol XI, 1936) to the Society's Transactions and the following articles to Ceredigion: "The Monastic Economy of the Cist- ercians at Strata Florida" (Vol I, 1950), "The Celtic Saints in Cardi- ganshire" (Vol I, Part 1, 1950), "The Cult of Dewi Sant at Llanddewi- brefi" (Vol II, No 2, 1953), "The Churches of Mwnt and Verwig" (Vol II, 1955), "From Antiquarianism to Archaeology in Cardigan- shire, 1909-1959" (Vol III 1959) and "The Teify Valley as a Religious Frontier" (Vol VII, 1972). His addresses on "Some Cardiganshire Superstitions", "Cardiganshire in the Railway Age" and "Emigration from Cardiganshire to North America" will be remembered with much pleasure by members who heard him deliver these talks in his own incomparable manner. Our late President was as youthful in his last years as he was during the much earlier stages of his long and busy life. To the end he was an enthusiast, eager to learn and just as eager to impart the fruits of his scholarship. His frail physical appearance was deceptive: he possessed reserves of strength which enabled him to be generous to a fault in the giving of his talents, his time and his energy. Wales is deeply indebted to this great teacher who was himself quintessentially Welsh: full of curiosity about people and ideas, highly communicative, passionate in the exposition of the dryest facts, and thoroughly rooted in the democratic traditions of his people. J. E. R. Carson