Welsh Journals

ex-President, and Major-General Sandbach. The President, in wel- coming their distinguished guests as representatives of the famous Societe Polymathique du Morbihan, said that it was a great pleasure to Cambrian archaeologists to visit the region that was in a sense the greatest centre of the megalithic tradition, and the finest example of social continuity in Western Europe. It was a feature of French civilization that renowned savants were deeply concerned with the study of local problems, and he congratulated the Society on its unique museum and the fine catalogue made under the direction of M. Marsille, ex-President of the Society, and on the writings of its distinguished President, M. Roger Grand, concerning the mediaeval treasures of Le Morbihan, as well as on the local studies of Colonel Castle of Succinio. b.s.b. Fonssagrives. He expressed the regrets of the Association that M. Florian la Porte had been unable to accept the Association's invitation. M. Roger Grand replied on behalf of the three guests, and referred to the value of visits from students of other lands, who often helped our accustomed eyes to notice things that familiarity made them miss. He sketched a vivid picture of the British folk of the sixth century setting sail across channel and finding havens in the long, sunken valleys of the Breton shores, where, with hymns and religious enthusiasm, they repeopled the old land of the Veneti. The Breton language, the names of people and places, all recalled British origins, and no one had contributed so much to demonstrate this in Brittany as M. Loth. The meeting of 1889, far smaller than the present one, was concerned more with the north side of Brittany, and was memor- able for a visit to M. Ernest Renan, one of the great prose poets of