Lampeter Society
March 2017 The the Lampeter Society 1 CONTENTS What Goes Around Comes Around? 3 NEWS REPORTS 18 Editorship of The Link 3 Update: Traws Link Cymru Lampeter Society Annual Report 2016 4 Blessed Beer! Spotlight on Lampeter, with Emma Evans Minutes of the AGM of the Lampeter Society 5 Lampeter Society Annual Reunion, July 2016 7 OBITUARIES 20 Update – The Landscape Project 8 Patrick Ridgewell A Most Generous Gift 9 John Willmington Rev. Fred Secombe YEAR GROUP REUNIONS AND Obituarial Note – ‘Don’ or ‘Donald’ Jones? OTHER SPECIAL EVENTS 10 Professor Charles Thomas CBE DL DLitt FSA FRHistS FBA 1970s Reunion 1990-2000 Reunion NOSTALGIA 22 The Ladies of Shallot The South Atlantic Connection Memorabilia from 1983 Dates For Diaries, 2017 Request for Copy for Future Editions of The Link and Link Misconceptions 12 Extra Conveners wanted! 13 Membership of The Lampeter Society Business Committee Thank You Link Extra, 2016 FEATURES 13 Love at Lampeter (new instalment) LINK EXTRA 23 Lloyd Thomas and the Savage Markers What Goes Around Comes Around 2! REUNION 2017 27 Draft Programme Booking Form Menu Choices FORMS 31 Change Of Address Standing Order Mandate Lampeter Society London Branch – Annual Dinner 2017 The front cover image is reproduced courtesy of Sarah Roberts and the Roderic Bowen Library and Archives, UWTSD. It depicts Conrad Gesner (1516-1565), a Swiss physician, naturalist and philologist, who was arguably the greatest naturalist of his age. Between 1551 and 1558, he published a four-volume masterwork, the Historiae Animalium, now seen as a bridge between ancient, medieval and modern science. It covered quadrupeds, amphibians, birds, and a fourth volume on fish (Fischbuch, Zurick, 1575, PHI 00359) from which this image is taken.
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