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was finished. The title page of the first number or part is-Cowbridge: Printed to the Author by R. and D. Thomas, 1770. The title page to the Dictionary is- London Printed for the Author, 1794.' When Dr. Johnson completed his great work, he was attended at the close of his labours with sundry rewards and a great access of social consideration, but poor Walters was the object of no such attention or adoration. Ten months before his death he was elected to a Prebendal Stall in the Cathedral Church of his diocese, and with that modest acknowledgment of his labours the flood of honour reached its highest mark. Mr. Walters died on the 1st day of June, 1797, and was buried at Llandough, as the Register tells us, on the fourth of that month. His grave is probably in the Chancel, but no stone marks the spot wherein his remains had been laid. Welsh Bibliographical Society. ANNUAL MEETING. The Annual Meeting was held in the Guildhall, Car- marthen, on Wednesday, August 9th, 1911. The proceedings opened with a Reception, kindly given to the members by Mr. John Hinds, M.P., and Mrs. Hinds. There were present, among others, Mrs. W. Llewelyn Wil- liams, Mrs. Mary Davies, Mrs. T. E. Ellis, Mrs. Herbert Lewis, Miss Olwen Lloyd George, M. le Marquis de I' Estourbeillon, M. le Comte de Carfort, M. Erwan Berthon (Derwydd Mawr Llydaw), the Mayor and Mayoress of Carmarthen, Rev. El vet Lewis, M.A., Sir E. Vincent Evans, Mr. John Ballinger, M.A., Mr. Henry Blackwell (New York), Rev. T. Shankland, Father T. P. Kane, Llew Tegid, Mr. and Mrs. D. W. Prosser, Mr. and Mrs. D. Rhys Phillips, M. Pol Diverres, Mr. J. D. Jones, Dr. D. Vaughan