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3. On Dr Mathew Stewart's General Theorems. By T. S. 

 Davies, Esq, F.RS.E. 

 The following Donations wero presented to the Society 



since the last Meeting :— 



Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 

 Vol. i., Nos. 30, 31, 32, and 33.— i?y the Academy. 



Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy for the years 1841-42, 

 and 1842-43.— 5j/ the Academy. 



Sketch of the Civil Engineering of North America. By David Ste- 

 venson, Civil Engineer.— % the Author. 



A Treatise on the Application of Marine Surveying and Hydrometry 

 to the Practice of Civil Engineering, By David Stevenson. 

 Civil Engineer. — By the Author, 



Monday, 15//* Jpril 1844. 

 Very Rev. Principal LEE, V.P., in the Chair. 

 The following communication was read : — 

 1. Inquiry'into the Aborigines of the British Islands. Part 2. 

 On the claims of the Cymric and Gaelic races to be thus 

 considered. By Dr S. Hibbert Ware. 



In the first part of the present memoir, it was shewn that Csesar 

 divided Gaul into three parts, of which one was inhabited by the 

 Belgse, another by those who, in their own language, were called 

 Celta;, but who, by the Romans, were named Gauls, and a third by 

 the Aquitani. These three nations, according to the Roman his- 

 torian, differed from each other in language, custom, and laws ; but 

 it was remarked by the author, that they also differed from each 

 other in physical characters,— the Belgse possessing what is named 

 a Cymric type, the Gauls proper a Gaulish type, and the Aquitani 

 an Iberian type. All these three races were to be distinguished 

 from the zanthous, light-haired, Germanic tribes of the West of 

 Europe, not only by the dark colour of the hair and eyes, but by 

 other particulars, as the form of the head, &c. 



The present memoir was confined to (1st), the Cymric race, and 

 (2dly), the Gaelic race. 



(1st), The Cymric race. — ^The physiological distinction of Cymri 

 and Gaelic races was first established by the late Dr W. F. Edwards, 



