202 Proceedings of the Royal Society 
Journal of the Chemical Society. March 1864. 8vo. — From the 
Society. 
Monthly Eeturn of the Births, Deaths, and Marriages registered in 
the Eight Principal Towns of Scotland, &c. February 1864. 
8 VO. — From the Registrar-General, 
Monthly Notices of the Koyal Astronomical Society. Yol. XXIV. 
No. 4. 8 VO. — From the Society. 
Bulletin de la Societe de G-eographie. Cinquieme Serie. Tome VI. 
8 VO. — From the Society. 
Sitzungsberichte der kbnig. bayer. Akademie der Wissenschaften 
zuMiinchen. II. Heft V. 8vo. — From the Academy. 
Memoires de I’Academie des Sciences de ITnstitut Imperial de 
France. Tome XXVI. 4to. — From the Academy. 
Extraits de Geologie pour Tannee 1861. 8vo. — From M. Delesse. 
Proceedings of the Eoyal Horticultural Society. Vol.IV. March 
1864. 8 VO. — From the Society. 
Monday^ Mli April 1864. 
Professor INNES, Vice-President, in the Chair. 
The following communications were read : — 
1. On the Celtic Languages in their Eelation to each other, 
and to the Teutonic Dialects. By W. F. Skene, Esq. 
(This paper was given at the request of the Council.') 
Mr Skene in his paper gave a sketch of the various views which 
had been entertained regarding the Celtic languages, and advocated 
the opinion that these languages belonged properly to the Indo- 
European class. He gave an outline of the distinctive peculiarities 
of the two branches of the Celtic languages, the Welsh and the 
Gaelic, and discussed the leading theories regarding the lost Pictish 
language, only five words of which were now extant. Mr Skene 
had, as the result of his^ investigations, arrived at the conclusion 
that the Pictish language occupied a place between the Welsh and 
the Gaelic — that it was a Gaelic dialect partaking largely of Welsh 
forms. 
