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 institution in Wales responsible to the nation. We should set before ourselves as an ideal that an effort should invariably be made, by great sacrifices if necessary, to Sccure these collections from being scattered over the world, and to make them part and parcel of one of the collegiate libraries, or of a national library. When these two forms of enterprise are carried out, when a complete calendar of Welsh manuscripts, and, if possible, a calendar of Welsh records is published, and when there is an adequate public collection of Welsh books and books relating to Wales placed in the three University Colleges, what will then be the work before us?

I think that a special duty is cast upon us as a Guild of Graduates to aid the orderly and scholarly presentation of the best treasures of our manuscripts and collections to the reading public. We ought, as a Guild. to survey the whole field of our literature, to allot work for our members and for co-workers, and to take steps to publish the results of that work. Professor Lloyd is going to read a paper upon the Organization of the Guild," upon