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The Urgency One writer after another tells us that much of the evidence of our Task which we seek to record, whether material or intellectual, is rapidly passing away. Dr. R. W. Brunskill has added his testimony to the importance of avoiding delay. In a letter, 26.v.1961, he says, "I have recently taken up my study of Northern Cumberland after an absence of five years and I have been amazed at the number of buildings, particularly of rude construction and simple accommodation, which have disappeared in that time. Studies of vernacular building have become all the more urgent as reconstruction is quickening in pace." Donations to It is hoped that members of the Club will assist the Powys- Museums land Museum by collecting for it objects associated with the various occupations of our ancestors, and by so doing will help it to render to the County that educational service which the Founders intended it should do. The following few examples of recent gifts to the Welsh Folk Museum at St. Fagans may indicate the kind of objects that are desired, subject to the avail- ability of the necessary storage and exhibition space A brass sun-dial (Harlech); the equipment of a boot-shop (Lanwyrtyd Wells); a harvest waggon (Presteign); millers' tools and account books (Pentrevoelas); a manuscript sheep ear-mark book (Radnorshire); an early chaff-cutter (Glamorgans.); and over five hundred photographic negatives illustrating Welsh rural crafts and topography. Powys-land "There is summer-sun enough; there is good plough land enough If only we, if only we had love enough." (trans. from the Norwegian).