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another German race, to which, possibly, the description given of 

 the Picts by Adamnan and various early writers, may apply, 



(B.) The Dark-haired Races of Europe. 



Between the light-haired and daik-haired races of Europe consti- 

 tutional differences exist ; the former shewing the sanguine, and the 

 latter the melancholic temperament. In the female constitution the 

 diversity is still more apparent. Under the dark-haii-ed races are 

 included (a) the Cymric ; (fj) the Gaulish ; (c) the Iberian. Tacitus 

 merely distinguishes the two latter ; but under the term Galli of 

 the ancients, two distinct races are included ; and when the Romans 

 alluded to the gigantic stature of the Gauls, the description could 

 only apply to the Cymric race, variously named Cimmerii, Cimbri, 

 and Ombri, who were contemporary with the Gauls. 



(a) The Cymric race. — This was the type of the ancient Britons 

 in the time of Tacitus, as well as of the Belgfe and Armorici in 

 Gaul. It was also that of the Fir-bolgs (Viri Bolgae) of Ireland. 



(b) The Gaulish or Gallic race ,• also named Celtic, — a name 

 which M. Thierry has proved to be merely a local one applied to an 

 armed confedei-ation of Gauls. The type was that of a third part of 

 Gaul ; and, in the time of Tacitus, it distinguished the population of 

 Ireland, part of Wales, and perhaps a few limited districts of Cale- 

 donia. 



(c) The Iberian race. — This type is still to be studied in the 

 ancient Silurian district of Tacitus, particularly in the counties of 

 Monmouth and Brecon. Hitherto the characters of this race have 

 not been defined ; which blank in ethnology it was one of the lead- 

 ing objects of the present memoir to supply ; — while another, yet 

 an ultimate one, was to shew, that the Iberian tribes are to be con- 

 sidered as the aborigines of the British Islands, as well as of Spain, 

 Ireland, Gaul, and Italy. 



The following Donations of Books to the Society's Library 

 were announced : — 



Annuaire Magnetique et Meteorologique du Corps des Ingenieurs 

 des Mines de Russie, Par A. T. Kupffner. Annee 1841. — 

 Par le Ministre des Finances. 



Journal of Agriculture, and Transactions of the Highland and Agri- 

 cultural Society of Scotland, March 1844. — By the Society. 



Observations on Days of unusual Magnetic Disturbance made at the 



