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sent time. They were classed according to the different 
reigns, and the events which they recorded were noticed. 
Some biographical memoirs of the Mossops, father and son, 
were also introduced; individuals of whom but little is known, 
even in Dublin, their native city, beyond those works which 
have long been admired as worthy of the best days of the 
medallic art. 
Mr. Todd, for Mr. Petrie, read a paper by the late Dr. 
West, “on the Ancient Geography of Gaul and the British 
Isles.” The principal object of this paper is to ascertain 
whether the Belge were of Teutonic or Celtic origin, and 
whether they spoke a Gaelic, or Irish, or a Cumric or Welch 
dialect of the Celtic; the author inclined to the opinion 
that they were of Celtic origin, and spoke a dialect of the 
Cumric, more resembling the Cornish than the Welsh, but 
different from the Erse or Gaelic; he brought many curious 
and valuable facts to support his theory. 
DONATIONS. 
Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de U Aca- 
demie des Sciences. Nos. 4,5, 6, 7,8, for the year 1838. 
Avec Tables Alphabetiques. Presented by the Institute. 
Transactions of the Cambridge Philosophical Society. 
Vol. VI. Part 2. Presented by the Society. 
Flora Batava. By Jan Koops and H. C. Van Hall. Nos. 
112 and 113. Presented by the Authors. 
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of 
London. For the year 1837. Parts 1 and 2. Presented 
by the Society. 
List of the Fellows of the Royal Society. November 30, 
1837. Presented by the same. 
Address of his Royal Highness the President of the Royal 
Society, held at the Anniversary Meeting, November 30th, 
1837. Presented by the same. 
Abstracis of the Papers printed in the Philosophical 
