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 tract of land in the estuary of the Glaslyn, but unfortunately the design was never executed. Tremadoc and Wales are thus for ever serious losers. Gibson left his designs and £32,000 to the Royal Academy. I cannot but think that if Glyndwr's policy of establishing two Welsh Universities had been carried out, Richard Wilson and John Gibson would have bequeathed their paintings, designs and casts to them. The galleries of the Welsh Universities would have been graced and enriched by the genius and benefactions of these two noble sons of Wales, and their presence would have probably helped to produce a genuine national Welsh School of Art. But to not one of these types of the possibilities of Celf Cymru is there any statue or memorial in the villages or towns associated with their name.

When we turn from the irresistible but silent charm of the works of those of our countrymen who interpreted the relations of man to nature, to the influences which are remoulding the relations of man to man, we ask ourselves whether Wales has contributed