HEREDITY. 
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He says, "Of this Arthur the Britons fondly tell many fables, 
even to the present day ; a man worthy to be celebrated, not by 
idle fictions, but by authentic history. He long upheld the sink- 
ing state, and roused the broken spirit of his countrymen to war." 
The second quotation was from Dr. Borlase : "In short, there 
certainly was such a person. Another thing may be asserted with- 
out doubt, that he was a valiant warrior and true Christian ; but 
his real actions, great as they were, cannot now be separated from 
his false and superstitious ones, so intimately are they mixed with 
fable." 
Lastly, Dr. Lappenberg: "Poem and tradition bear witness to 
to the spirit, and his ashes and the gravestone to the life and name 
of Arthur. Faith in the existence of this Christian Celtic Hector 
cannot be shaken by short-sighted doubt, though much must yet 
be done for British story to render the sense latent in the poems of 
the bards into the sober language of historic criticism." 
EXISTING EVIDENCES OF ANCIENT CIVILIZATION 
IN IEELAND. 
LECTURE BY MR. W. POWER. 
(Read 15th November, 1883.) 
HEEEDITY. 
SYLLABUS OP LECTURE BY MR. GODFREY CARTER, M.R.C.S. 
(Read November 22nd, 1883.) 
Heredity : its uniform presence throughout Nature. The laws of 
uniformity and diversity considered. The law of deviation from 
an average hereditary genius and disease. Our consequent obliga- 
tions. The rise and fall of nations. The theory of Pangenesis. , 
