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 if necessary, by the Court of the University, should be allotted to him. The ground has been prepared. We have already pressed upon the Treasury and upon the Government the duty of the Record Office to begin the publication of the records relating to Wales, and pressed upon them the importance of providing a Welsh scholar to take care of the Welsh manuscripts in the British Museum. Is it now becoming clear that these demands which we have been pressing upon the Imperial Government can be adequately met, not by appointing a stray Welsh official in the Record Office or the British Museum, but by placing the responsibility frankly and fully upon the Guild as an integral part of the growing life of the University of Wales? I entertain a strong belief that this work should be entrusted to the Guild as the public body of the scholars, public men, and educational workers of Wales. With generous encouragement and adequate support from the Court, I fully believe that the Guild can be organized to perform this task with credit to itself and to the University.