Development of Welsh Agriculture", by Professor Parry of the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth.

It is proposed to hold the Annual Dinner of the Society on the 17th day of February 1896, and the Council have the honour to announce that H.R.H. the Duke of York has consented to be the guest of the Society on the occasion. They trust to have the support of all the members in giving His Royal Highness a loyal and a hearty welcome. The Session will wind up with the usual social gathering in the month of June.

During the year the only publication issued to the members was The Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion for the Session 1893-4, containing the following papers, viz:-" The Ancient Church in Wales", by Sir Roland L. Vaughan Williams; "Welsh Saints", by Mr. Willis-Bund, F.S.A.; and "The Christian Church in Wales during the Fifth and Sixth Centuries", by Professor Hugh Williams, M.A., together with Reports and Statements of Account to the 9th of November, 1894.

Early in the year, Mr. Egerton Phillimore, whose contributions to Celtic literature have done so much to enhance the value of the Society's publications, tendered his resignation as Editor of Y Cymmrodor, which the Council with much regret accepted. The Secretary was requested to see through the press and to issue vol. xii of Y Cymmrodor, the sheets of which have been for some time in type. The first number of the volume, containing Judge Lewis's paper on "The Court of the Council of Wales and the Marches", with several valuable appendices, and Mr. Alfred N. Palmer's paper on "Offa's and Wat's Dykes", as well as other contributions of interest, will be issued immediately.

The Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion for 1894-5 are now being printed. The volume

contains Professor Rhys' paper on "The Hunting of Twrch
Trwyth"; Miss E. P. Hughes' paper on "The Future of
Welsh Education"; the Rev. J. Fisher's paper on
Welsh Calendar"; and Mr. Stephen W. Williams' paper on

"The

The Cistercian Abbey of Cwm-Hir, Radnorshire", to which the Council have had the pleasure of adding a most interesting set of illustrations drawn by the well-known antiquarian artist Mr. Worthington G. Smith.

The

Arrangements have now been completed which the Council trust will ensure greater attention and regularity in the publication department of the Society's work. care of Y Cymmrodor has been entrusted to a Cymmrodor Editorship Committee consisting of :

The Magazine will be devoted to the publication of the results of original research, but it is intended to retain the practice of publishing the Sessional Lectures in a separate volume, to be called the Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion.

By an arrangement of purchase between this Society and the National Eisteddfod Association, the Council have secured the Association's Carnarvon Eisteddfod Prize Essay, consisting of a "Collection of the Poems of Iolo Goch, with Historical and Critical Notes", by Mr. Charles Ashton of Dinas Mawddwy, a well-known contributor to Welsh literature. This acquisition will enable the Council to carry out the plan projected and begun by the first editor of Y Cymmrodor-the late Rev. Robert Jones of

Rotherhithe (see vols. i and ii). This work, under the supervision of Mr. Ashton and the Society's Secretary, is now going through the press-over 200 pages have been printed off, and the remaining sheets will be cleared in the course of a few weeks.

The Council are further pleased to report that they have arranged to publish a transcript of the Harleian MS. of Nennius, with an Introduction by Mr. Alfred Nutt, and a Translation by Mr. Henry Owen, F.S.A.

It is in contemplation to publish a companion edition of Gildas, with Introduction, Translation, and Notes by Professor Hugh Williams of Bala, whose paper on "The Christian Church in Wales", in the last number of The Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion, has excited very considerable interest and discussion amongst Continental writers.

With regard to the publications of the Cymmrodorion Record Series, the Council have to state that the second and third numbers of Owen's Pembrokeshire are in the press, and that The Black Book of St. David's, and The Catalogue of Welsh Manuscripts in the British Museum are being proceeded with.

With the advent of spring the Council hope to obtain the consent of Mrs. Phillips, the owner of the Manor (to whom they are already greatly indebted), and the assistance of Mr. Stephen Williams of Rhayader, to make further investigations at Abbey Cwm-Hir, with the view of determining the facts as to the burial of Prince Llewelyn ap Gruffydd.

The Council have made several enquiries for new offices, but, up to the present, have not been able to secure suitable accommodation.

Under the Society's Rules the term of office of the following officers expires, viz, :—

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THE PRESIDENT,

THE VICE-PRESIDENT,

THE AUDITORS,

and ten Members of the Council retire under Rule 4, viz.:

A vacancy also arises through the removal of His Honour Judge Lewis from London.

A Financial Statement for the year is appended to this Report.

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