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the Celtse, but also differing in a remarkable manner from 

 the two earliest races of Scandinavia, the primitive race of 

 the north of Europe, apparently corresponding to the second 

 race of the Scottish Tumuli. 



An interesting collection of crania was exhibited from 

 various Scottish cairns and barrows, and a large diagram 

 was shewn in illustration of their measurements and relative 

 capacities. The communication excited much interest, and 

 led to an animated discussion on various points referred to, 

 in which the author was acknowledged to have opened up an 

 entirely new field of inquiry, in relation to primitive Scottish 

 Ethnology. 



Section F. — Statistics. 

 President. — Dr J. Lee. 



Vice-PresidentB. — Rev. Dr Gordon, Dr H. Marshall, Professor W. P. 

 Alison, Mr G. R. Porter. 



Secretaries. — Professor Hancock, Messrs J. Stark, J. Fletcher. 



Committee.— Mr T. Tooke, Colonel Sykes, Sir J. P. Boileau, Messrs F. G. P. 

 Nelson, G. L. Finlay, W. T. Thomson, J. Finlaison, F. Sopwith, W. Jerdan, 

 W. Felkin, J, Shuttleworth, R. Christie, W. Chambers, Sir C. Lemon, 

 Messrs J. Gibson, J. W. Orpen, J. Ball. 



** On the Self-imposed Taxation of the Working Classes in the 

 United Kingdom," by Mr G. R. Porter. — The writer referred, of 

 course, to that self-imposed taxation which consists in the use of 

 articles from which we could very well abstain, which are of little or 

 no use to us either bodily or intellectually, and by foregoing the 

 consumption of which we should become, individually and nationally, 

 better able to bear the necessary expenses of Government. The 

 particular instances to which he called attention, were the consump- 

 tion of ardent spirits, beer, and tobacco ; the yearly expenditure for 

 which articles in the United Kingdom amounts to a sum which must 

 appear perfectly fabulous until the reasonableness of the result be 

 shewn by means of calculations adopted and formed on good autho- 

 rity. The quantity of spirits of home production consumed in 1849 

 within the kingdom was — 



In England . . . 9,053,676 imperial gallons. 

 Scotland . . . 6,935,003 

 Ireland . . . 6,973,333 



Together . 22,962,012 



