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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, 
Treland, Gaul, and Italy. 
Monday, 18th March 1844. 
Dr ABERCROMBIE, Vice-President, in the Chair. 
The following Communications were read :— 
1. On the Existence of an Osseous Structure in the Verte- 
bral Column of Cartilaginous Fishes. By James Stark, 
M.D., F.R.S.E. 
2. Farther Observations on Glaciers, by Professor Forbes. 
Monday, 1st April 1844. 
Sir T. M. BRISBANE, President, Bart., in the Chair. 
The following communications were read :— 
1. On the Development, Structure, and Economy of the Ace- 
phalocysts of Authors ; with an Account of the Natural 
Analogies of the Entozoa in general. By Harry D. 8. 
Goodsir, Conservator of the Museum of the Royal Coll. 
Surg. Edin. Communicated by John Goodsir, Esq. 
2. Account of a Repetition of Dr Samuel Brown’s Processes 
for the Conversion of Carbon into Silicon. By George 
Wilson, M.D., Lecturer on Chemistry; and John Crombie 
Brown, Esq. Communicated by the Secretary. 
3. On Dr Mathew Stewart’s General Theorems. By T. S. 
Davies, Esq., F.R.S.E. 
Monday, 15th March 1844. 
Very Rey. Principal LEE, Vice-President, in the Chair. 
The following Communications were 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 Cesar 
divided Gaul into three parts, of which one was inhabited by the 
Belge, another by those who, in their own language, were called 
Celt, 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, customs, and laws; but 
