by affording competitors ample time to execute them, it might succeed in securing for the world something that all Welshmen could look upon with pride and satisfaction. (Cheers.) He was induced to throw out this suggestion by observing that there are at present before the country several subjects for competition which cannot possibly be done justice to in the short time allotted for their preparation. The Society could here, then, fill up a great deficiency by offering prizes for compositions of various kinds, and by extending the time for their preparation.

Mr. Ellis Jones said he was very much pleased to find that the old Cymmrodorion Society was about to be revived, and he was prepared to do his best towards making it a success.

Mr. Stephen Evans said that he and his friend, Mr. Ellis Jones, could not afford to be connected with a failing concern. (Laughter.) No, both of them would do all in their power to avoid having a third collapse. (Cheers.) Their countrymen were huddled up in a remote corner, and one of the first aims of the Society would be to devise the best means of bringing the talent that unquestionably lurks there before the world. There was some important work for them to do, and he felt convinced that they would soon be in possession of the means of carrying out to the full the objects of the Society, as sketched forth in the prospectus. One object of the Society should not be lost sight of-and it was, that occasional meetings should be held under its auspices in the metropolis during the winter months, at which papers of interest, and bearing directly upon matters connected with their country, might be read by some of their friends and fellow-countrymen. These meetings, as a matter of course, would be non-political and unsectarian; and looking, then, at this Society as being responsible for such meetings, he thought it might be made a considerable power among them. (Applause.)

Mr. Morgan Lloyd, Q.C., felt that the Society would be of great service to Wales and his fellow-countrymen, and as such he could not help lending it his most active support. (Cheers.)

Mr. B. T. Williams, Mr. R. G. Williams, Rev. E. Jones, and Mynorydd expressed themselves in a similar manner. The meeting then separated with a vote of thanks to the Chairman.

THE CONSTITUTION AND RULES.

1. The name of the Society shall be the Cymmrodorion Society.

2. The object of the Society is the encouragement of literature, poetry, music, science, and art, as more immediately connected with Wales.

3. The Society shall consist of a President, Vice-Presidents, Council, a Secretary, a Treasurer, and members. The office of the Council shall be in the Metropolis.

4. The following gentlemen shall constitute the first officers and Council of the Society:

President-Sir Watkin Williams Wynn, Bart., M.P.

Vice-Presidents.

The Right Hon. Earl Powis.

The Right Rev. The Lord Bishop of St. Asaph.
The Right Rev. The Lord Bishop of Bangor.
The Right Rev. The Lord Bishop of St. David's.
The Right Rev. The Lord Bishop of Llandaff.
The Right Hon. Lord Penrhyn.
The Right Hon. Lord Aberdare.

Sir R. B. W. Bulkeley, Bart., M.P.
Sir Thomas D. Lloyd, Bart.,
Bronwydd.

Mr. Charles Bath, Ffynone, Swan

sea.

Mr. Richard Davies, M.P.
Mr. Morgan Lloyd, Q.C., M.P.
Mr. G. Osborne Morgan, Q.C.,
M.P.

Mr. Love Jones Parry.

Mr. Serjeant Parry, Temple.

Mr. J. H. Puleston, M.P.

The Rev. Canon Stewart Perowne,
Cambridge.

Mr. E. M. Richards.

Mr. H. Hussey Vivian, M.P.
Major W. Cornwallis West, Lord
Lieutenant, Co. Denbigh.
Mr. Gwilym Williams, Ponty-
pridd.

Captain Edmund Verney, R.N., Mr. Charles W. Williams Wynn,

Mr. Wm. Davies (Mynorydd), Mr. Hugh Owen, Queen Victoria Euston Road.

Street.

Mr. Joseph Edwards, Robert Street, Mr. Brinley Richards, Kensington. N.W.

Mr. H. Lloyd Roberts, Temple.
Mr. T. A. Roberts, Lincoln's-Inn-
Fields.

Mr. Howel Thomas, Local Govern-
ment Board.

Mr. John Thomas (Pencerdd Gwa-
lia).

Mr. T. J. Thomas, Queen Victoria
Street.

Mr. David Evans, Watling Street.
Col. G. Grant Francis, F.S.A.
Mr. John Griffith (Gohebydd)
Mr. Thomas Hamer, Wood Street.
Mr. Ivor James, Thornton Heath.
Mr. W. D. Jeremy, Lincoln's Inn.
Mr. Ellis Jones, Queen Victoria
Street.
The Rev. Evan Jones, Welsh Mr. B. T. Williams, Q.C., Temple.
Church,
Mr. J. Ignatius Williams, Temple.
The Rev. Robert Jones, B.A., Dr. John Williams, University
Rotherhithe.
Mr. Erasmus Jones, Throgmorton The Rev. R. Williams (Hwfa Mon).
Street.
Mr. R. G. Williams, Q.C.

College.

Editor of Transactions-Rev. Robert Jones, B.A.

Secretary-Mr. C. W. Jones.

Bankers-The Imperial Bank (Limited), Westminster Branch, Victoria Street.

Corresponding Members for North Wales.

The Rev. D. Silvan Evans, Llanwrin Rectory, Machynlleth.
The Rev. David Howell, The Vicarage, Wrexham.

Mr. J. Ceiriog Hughes, Caersws, Mont.

Mr. Tegerin Hughes, Llanerchymedd.

Professor Rhys, of the University of Oxford.

Corresponding Members for South Wales.

Mr. W. Downing Evans, Solicitor, Newport, Mon.

The Rev. John Griffith, Rector of Neath,

Mr. J. M. Jones (Ioan Cunllo), Rhydlewis, Llandyssil,
Mr. W. Rosser, Ynyscynon, Aberdare.

Corresponding Member for Bristol-Owen Parry, Esq.

[Note.-It should be remarked that this list contains the names of members and officers as they at present stand in the year 1877.]

5. The Council shall consist of thirty members, and the management of the Society shall be vested in such Council, of whom five shall constitute a quorum.

6. Of the Council one-third shall retire annually, such third to be those who shall have attended the meetings of the Council the least number of times; but to be eligible for reelection.

7. There shall be an Annual General Meeting of the Society, at which the vacancies in the Council through such retirement shall be filled up by the vote of the members present. All vacancies occurring through death or resignation shall, if necessary, be filled up by the Council itself— gentlemen thus chosen to retire at the end of the year, and to form part of the retiring one-third.

8. The qualification of membership shall be the payment of an annual subscription of not less than one guinea, paid in advance. If any member's subscription shall be in arrear for two years, and he shall, on being reminded by the Treasurer or Secretary, fail to pay his subscriptions, his name shall be erased from the list of members.

9. Every member who shall have paid his annual subscription shall be entitled to one copy of the Transactions of the Society, to be delivered free of charge.

10. The Council shall meet on the second Wednesday in every month, except the months of August, September, and October. Extraordinary meetings may be called at the request of five or more members of the Council, upon their giving to the secretary a week's notice in writing, stating the object of such proposed meeting.

11. There shall be held during the winter months occasional meetings, at which the reading of papers (on subjects approved of by the Council), followed by discussions, shall take place. To these meetings every member of the Society shall be at liberty to introduce one friend.

12. The Council may appoint corresponding members for North and South Wales, and for such English provincial towns as shall be deemed expedient-such corresponding members to be ex-officio members of the Council. The Council may also from time to time nominate honorary members.

13. The accounts of the Society shall be audited, and an annual statement thereof shall be submitted to the General Annual Meeting of the Society.

Notwithstanding the support accorded to the Society on its revival, some time necessarily elapsed before it obtained such recognition as enabled it fully to carry out its objects, and the launching of a literary work, such as that contemplated in Rule 9.

The Society's operations were for a time limited, but in 1876 it entered upon the publication of its Transactions. In the Report of the Council, presented to the Annual Meeting held on the 22nd of November 1876, the publication of these Transactions is thus alluded to: "It has been determined that the Transactions shall be published under the title of Y Cymmrodor, and the Council have much pleasure