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places where it had not been introduced more than two years 

 it had already quite filled up the reservoirs or parts of canals 

 in which it was growing. A species of Anacharis grew in 

 North America ; but Mr Babington considered the British 

 species peculiar, and had named it accordingly. It belonged 

 to the same order of plants as Vallisneria, and produced its 

 flowers in the same way. Although filaments had been seen 

 in the staminiferous flowers, no anthers had yet been dis- 

 covered in the British species. 



Ethnological Sub-Section. 



President. — Vice-Admiral Sir Charles Malcolm, K.C.B. 



Vice-Presidents. — Professor J. Y. Simpson; Dr R. G. Latham ; 

 Rev. Dr Edward Hincks ; Major Rawlinson. 



Secretary. — Daniel Wilson, Esq. 



Committee. — Rev. W. L. Alexander, D.D., Professor Buckman, Professor 

 Christison, Sir Charles Fellows, Joseph Fletcher, Esq., Professor Goodsir, 

 Dr William Jones, J. Hogg, Esq., Professor R. Lee, D.D., Dr Meyer, Dr 

 D. Skae, W. F. Skene, Esq., William Spence, Esq., William Walker, Esq. 



Dr Edward Hincks read a paper on the Language and Mode 

 of Writing of the Ancient Assyrians ; and Professor E-an- 

 gabe of Athens read Notices of some additions made to our 

 knowledge of the Ancient Greeks by recent discoveries in 

 Greece. 



The communication next laid before the Section by Mr 

 Daniel Wilson, was entitled an " Inquiry into the Evidence 

 of the Existence of Primitive Races in Scotland, prior to the 

 Celtae." Mr Wilson commenced by furnishing a slight 

 sketch of the previous labours of continental ethnologists, 

 and especially of Professors Retzius, and Nillson, the latter 

 of whom has carefully explored the primitive barrows of 

 Sweden, and, by the comparison of their crania, has arrived 

 at the conclusion that four successive races have occupied 

 that country. Mr Wilson shewed, by a series of results 

 established on carefully sifted data, that evidence may be 

 produced to prove the existence of two primitive races in 

 Scotland, differing decidedly in cranial characteristics from 



