portant department of the State. It was a work which belonged to the Ordnance Department, and ought not to be given up in this way. If they desired help, let them make some sort of an appeal to Associations such as this (the Cambrian Archæological), to name some competent men to deal with the subject. He noticed on his way into Haverfordwest that day a sign with the name Trefgarne spelt "Treffgharne"-he believed there was an "h", into " Treff". and he did not suppose their English names would fare very much better.

Mr. Mansel Franklen seconded the resolution.

Mr. Laws had great pleasure in supporting the resolution. Many of his fellow-countrymen were bi-linguists, but they wanted many more than two languages in the solution of the difficulty. It was a most important matter, because the history of the county was known by the place-names. With bastard English in the south and bastard Welsh in the north, they lost a variety of important names which taught them history. It was entirely through their language that they were able to learn the history of their ancestors, and so they found what was being done in Egypt; everything was being hunted out by their language.

Mr. Henry Owen said they knew these place-names now, but the next generation would have forgotten how to spell them. This had begun, for he noticed that Erick's Hill appeared in the Ordnance Map as "Hayrick's" Hill.

After some remarks by Archdeacon Thomas,

The Chairman said that as a member of a County Council and Parish Council, he could add hearty appreciation of the motion. They were expected to do almost everything now. They had taken over Magistrates' duties, those of Poor Law Guardians, and had to look after the rights of suffering pigs, and animals of all descriptions. The education of a great number of their children was now in their care; and in fact those unfortunate local bodies seemed to have every sort of work thrust upon them. The only way to do would be to make every parish, district, and county councillor pass a competitive examination, and then also undergo a medical examination to see if he were physically fit for the great and arduous duties he was called upon to fill.

Professor Rhys remarked that they looked upon this Association as a sort of Archæological Parliament for Wales. It had come into existence in 1846, and had gone on gathering strength, and therefore had a status in matters of this sort. They had had sixty-seven new members during these meetings.

The motion was then put and carried unanimously, the final wording being left to Mr. Franklen to decide.

Mr. Franklin proposed, and Mr. Romilly Allen seconded, a vote of thanks to the Local Committee, with special reference to Dr. Phillips, its Chairman, and Mr. J. W. Phillips, its Secretary, which was heartily carried.

Thanks were accorded to Sir Charles for presiding, on the motion

of Archdeacon Thomas, seconded by Professor Rhys, who alluded to the Association's indebtedness to owners of property, and to the consideration and kindness they had met with in this county.

Mr. Stephen Williams moved thanks to the General Secretary, Rev. Mr. Chidlow, to whom the marvellous access of members was largely due. Canon Trevor Owen seconded, and it was warmly endorsed.

Mr. Chidlow, in response, paid tribute to the hospitality and consideration they had met with everywhere they had gone during their excursions, and proposed a vote of thanks to the Mayor and Corporation for the trouble taken in displaying the interesting records and other antiquities in the Council Chamber.

Canon Trevor Owen seconded the vote of thanks.

The Mayor, replying, said the inhabitants appreciated the honour done the town by the visit of the Association, trusted they had been well repaid, and hoped it would not be as long before they came again as since their previous visit. As regarded the records, the Council was indebted to Rev. James Phillips for preparing them and putting them in order. He could not refrain from thanking Mr. Stephen Williams for the kind manner in which he had spoken of St. Mary's Church. They had always thought it a beautiful church, but after hearing what they had from such an authority, they would be more proud of it still.

With the announcement that next year's Annual Meeting of the Association was to be held at Ludlow, the meeting terminated.

NOTE. We have largely made use of the accounts in the Pembroke County Guardian and The Welshman in compiling this report.

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Obituary.

The Right Reverend W. BASIL JONES, D.D., the late Bishop of St. David's.

DURING the past year the Society has to record with extreme regret the great loss that it has sustained in the removal by death of two of its earliest and most distinguished members, the Right Reverend W. Basil Jones, D.D., the Bishop of St. David's, and in conjunction with the late Professor Freeman the learned historian of the Cathedral of his See; and the Very Reverend Dean Allen, whose name will be long enshrined in its memory in connection with the restoration of the Cathedral of St. David's, to which he has devoted life and labour with an intensity of affection during so many years. They were indeed "par nobile fratrum", whose names and memory as erudite and ardent archæologists will remain fresh among us for a long time to come.

Bishop Jones, of Gwynfryn, near Aberystwyth, was born of an old Cardiganshire family, and was ever pleased at the opportunity of claiming for himself his local connection with the so-called Levitical county. After a brilliant career at Shrewsbury School he passed on to Oxford, with a high classical reputation that was justified in afteryears by his success in carrying off the Ireland Scholarship, the blue ribbon of classical attainment. Successively Scholar of Trinity, Michel Fellow of Queen's, and Fellow and Tutor of University, he made an early acquaintance with St. David's and its neighbourhood during several yearly visits with pupils in the summer vacation, in conjunction with his old college friend Edward A. Freeman, afterwards the Regius Professor of Modern History at Oxford.

His interest in the Cathedral and its surroundings increased upon further acquaintance, until at last it issued in the production and publication of their great joint work, the elaborate and scholarlike History of St. David's.

An accurate observer of facts, with a mind sensitively attentive to details, however minute, accompanied by a love of antiquarian research, alike in matters of history, philology, and architecture, he seemed to be almost by nature a born archeologist; and so it is no wonder that, upon the formation of our Cambrian Archæological Society, which had for its object the illustration of the past history of his native land, he became one of its earliest and most energetic supporters. He at once threw himself into the work of the Society, and after his appointment in 1848-1849 as one of its general secretaries, laboured zealously in its behalf for some years, until in 1854 he resigned his office into the hands of the Rev. E. L. Barnwell, under whom the work of the Society was carried on for so many years with distinguished success.

The Right Rev. W. Basil Jones (late Bishop of St. David's).

(From a Photograph by Messrs. Bassano, 25, Old Bond Street.)