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of Edinburgh, Session 1875-76. 
Campbell could rebut. If that gentleman, to whom Celtic litera- 
ture owes so much (and who in fact is the Wolf of the Ossianic 
question), or any Galician who thinks with him, shall succeed in 
leading a counterproof, I can only conclude that, considering the 
scrappy and fragmentary nature of some of the materials in Mac- 
pherson’s hands, it might possibly have been the case that the 
translator filled up some of the gaps in his tale in English, with 
the intention that they might be done into Gaelic before publica- 
tion by Strathmaskie, Captain Morrison, or some other of his High- 
land coadjutors; but that the English, as a whole, is a translation 
from the Gaelic, and not a translation of the best quality in many 
respects, may be accepted as one of the best ascertained facts in 
the whole range of philological investigation. 
The following Gentlemen were elected Fellows of the 
Society 
Professor M. Forster Heddle. 
J. F. Rodger, S.S.C. 
William Thomson, F.C.S., Manchester. 
Monday , Ibth May 1876. 
Sir WILLIAM THOMSON, President, in the Chair. 
The Keith Prize for the biennial period 1873-75, which 
has been awarded to Professor Crum Brown for his Re- 
searches on the Sense of Rotation, and on the Anatomical 
Relations of the Semi-circular Canals of the Internal Ear, 
was presented by the President. 
The following Communications were read 
1. Notes on Dredging in Madeira, by the Rev. Robert Boog 
Watson, B.A., F.R.S.E., F.G.S. 
The difficulties in the way of dredging at Madeira are many 
and considerable. This has probably prevented any of this work 
having been done since the publication of Mr Macandrew’s list of 
Mollusca, presented to the British Association in 1854. The author 
