Welsh Journals

made sketches for the engraver to work from, to illustrate the record of the proceedings in "Archaeologia Cambrensis." The meetings continue to be held in the North and South alternately, usually in the week after the National Eisteddfod. The number present varies between 80 and 120. Last year 86 formed the party in Brittany. Modern facilities for travel make it possible to see more places and things, and with a greater degree of comfort. Occasion- ally expeditions go further afield. The Isle of Man was visited in 1865, Brittany in 1889 and 1924, and, in conjunction with the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, County Kerry in 1891, when the late Sir John Rhys presided, and the Western Islands of Scotland, Orkney and Caith- ness in 1899. Archaeologia Cambrensis was from the first adopted as the official journal of the Association. Originally the ownership was vested in private hands. At the Llandeilo meeting in 1855, it was decided to acquire the proprietary rights, and the Rev. H. Longueville Jones was appointed Editor. It has ever since been the property of the Association. It is now in its 80th volume, and is issued to members in half yearly parts of about 500 pages, each fully illustrated with photographs and plans. Under the able Editor- ship of Canon Fisher, D.Litt., F.S.A., it has more than maintained its place in the front rank of similar publications. Articles are contributed to its pages by writers who are experts in the subjects of which they treat. The "Miscellanea" section affords an outlet for short productions on new finds and other matters. The whole series from start to present time is a perfect mine of information relating to Welsh and Celtic antiquities generally, the results of the labours of leading authorities. Besides 'Arch. Camb' other publications are occasionally issued. The Association, as funds permit, makes grants in aid of excavation and exploration work. What is needed most at the present time is in- creased support for its Publications and Exca- vations Funds. Patriotic Welshmen can have no better objects upon which to bestow their generosity than these two Funds, and so enable the Association to further research and the publi- cation of matter awaiting generous hands to help it through the Press. Contributors may be as- sured that their money will be well and wisely spent. The roll of members numbers over 600, and is rapidly increasing year by year. New members are elected at the annual meeting held in August; application to be made to one of the General Secretaries. The subscription is £ 1 Is. A new regulation, when confirmed, will enable students of the Universities and of the Welsh Colleges, on the recommendation of their respective Principles, to become Associate Members upon payment of a registration fee of 5s. The Annual Gathering will take place this year, for the third time, at Llandeilo, August 10-14. The Officers of the Association are,-Presi- dent, Professor H. J. Fleure, D.Sc., F.S.A.; President-Elect, The Hon. Charles A. Urien Rhys, M.P.; Chairman of General Committee, Major Charles E. Breese; Chairman of Editorial Committee, Professor J. E. Lloyd, D.Litt., F.S.A.; Editor, Canon Fisher, B.D., D.Litt., F.S.A.; Chairman of Excavations Committee, Willoughby Gardner, Esq., F.S.A.; Secretary of Excavations Committee, H. Harold Hughes, Esq., F.S.A., A.R.I.B.A.; Treasurer, T. E. Morris, Esq., L.L.M., M.A.; General Secretaries, (Senior) Canon C. F. Roberts, M.A., F.S.A., Llanddulas Rectory, Abergele; (South Wales) Percy J. Williams, Esq., Bank Chambers, Heathfield Street, Swansea. PLAID GENEDLAETHOL CYMRU. DEBUT OF THE WELSH NATIONAL PARTY. By E. Lloyd Owen, M.D. FOR the first time during Eisteddfod week, and the first time in its own history, a public meeting will be held at Pwllheli by the new Welsh National Party, which is non-Tory, non-Liberal, and non-Labour. Besides this public meeting, two private meet- ings will be held, to which all intending as well as existing members are invited. Two years ago, at Mold, it will be remem- bered, the Bangor University G.G.G. (Y Dair G) engineered a meeting, which was severely criticised by some of the papers. The present writer was unable to get to the meeting, but he is assured that the reference made to "drilling" at a summer "camp" was not welcomed by many present, although apparently intended seriously. Since then the Bangor Dair G," together with similar "Three G's" at other University Colleges, have more or less identified themselves with the new party, which receives its formal inauguration at Pwllheli. The new party, while as equally determined and as intensely in earnest as some of the Mold friends, think it premature, to say the least, to refer to military force or even to suffragette methods, which, however, no doubt helped to secure their vote for women. At least they think that any "reprisals" (a more straightforward word than the international one of "sanctions") should at the present stage be directed not against our neighbours, the Saxons, but against certain members of our own household, who are so weak-kneed or are so English-worshipping, or, worst of all, who are so distrustful of their own brothers in the opposite end of our small Principality, as to prefer to be governed from London and by Englishmen, Scotchmen, and other comparative aliens, than by themselves in unison wth their own kith and kin, and from within their own territory.