Welsh Journals

to see the Forestry Commission's Plantations. Members meet at Llanelltyd at 12.3o p.m. Cars necessary. Bring lunch and tea. 7. Saturday, May 25th, 1957. Field Meeting. Leaders W. M. Condry, Esq., and P. Benoit, Esq. Subject Plants and Birds of Arthog Bog. Members meet at Barmouth Junction Station at 2 p.m. 8. Saturday, June 15th, 1957, at 12.45 p.m. Field Meeting. Leaders Mrs. M. Richards. Subjects Orchis and Dune Plants of Morfa Harlech. Members meet Harlech Station. 9. Saturday, July 13th, 1957. Field Meeting. Leader E. Price Evans, Esq. Subject Ecology and Plant Life of the Berwyn Mountains." Meet Llangynog at 1 p.m. Bus leaves Dolgelley at 1 a.m. Details later. Note.-As Mrs. M. Richards, Tynllidiart, will be away from July, 1956, to the end of May, 1957, Miss Elizabeth Jones, The Grammar School, Dolgelley, is acting as Convener. Please address all communications to her. CARDIGANSHIRE SECTION Members will receive their programmes for the coming season after the Annual General Meeting which takes place in September. The details have not yet been worked out but in the autumn Dr. Elfyn Hughes of Nature Conservancy will give an illustrated talk about the Cwm Idwal Nature Reserve and this will be followed up in the spring by a conducted tour of the Reserve when it is hoped to see some of the rare mountain plants to be found there. M.V. "MAYFLOWER" We very much regret to report the total loss of the M.V. Mayflower at Skomer on the 29th of July. She was at that time under hire to Lieutenant F. Alsop and a crew of two, under the usual charter agreement with our Yacht Committee. It should be pointed out that no-one not competent to navigate the Mayflower has been allowed to do so. Lt. Alsop, who is attached to the Naval Establishment at Kete, is a competent navigator and we had con- siderable confidence in his ability as a sailor and navigator. It is difficult to attach blame therefore to him for the loss of the May- flower, which was due to the exceptional circumstances of a sudden switch of wind from a light south or west wind on the 28th to a