Excerpt from Transactions of the Gaelic Society of Inverness, Vol. 8: 1878-79 The volume opens with a report of our Seventh Annual Assembly, which, it will be seen, was in every way a success its only drawback being the unavoidable absence of the Chief. After it we had a large accession to our membership, and the Society was meeting with the utmost encouragement when the country was overtaken by the financial disasters which have, for some time past, so much engrossed the public mind. As might naturally be expected that, combined with a winter of unprecedented severity, interfered to a considerable degree with the number and success of our meetings during the first half of the session. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Transactions of the Gaelic Society of Inverness, Vol. 5: Year 1875-6 In the Transactions for last year, a sketch was given of the various steps taken towards the establishment of a Celtic Chair in one of our universities. Since then the labours of Professor Blackie, the present Chief of our Society, have been bearing more and more fruit, and now the whole sum which he originally set himself to collect is all but in his hand. There is scarcely a Celtic meeting at which our venerable Chief is not present advocating the interests of the Chair 5 and everywhere he is greeted with a Highland welcome. Our, Society takes some pride in the fact that he began his campaign by'giving a lecture under its auspices. To his oath-gha/irm there has been many a hearty response from High landers in all parts of the world. The Professor's brither Scotslistened to it, and gave their money, and its influence has been felt by John Bull himself, who has just founded a Celtic Chair at Oxford. It is even said that there will ere long be another at Cambridge, and there is already a movement to establish one in Dublin University. Celtic literature is now being studied by people who were formerly considered the natural aliens of everything Celtic. In a previous volume of Transactions, allusion was made to the labours of Mr C. S. J erram in the Celtic field, and in this volume the members are presented with a paper from llls pen. Dr Hately Waddell has published an able work on the Ossianic question, and before this volume will be in the hands of all the members it is expected that he will lecture in Inverness under the auspices of the Society on the same subject. Professor Blackie has issued a valuable book on Gaelic Literature-a work which Will be long treasured by all Highlanders5 and Mr Skene's admirable Celtic Scotland has also been published during the year. So much for the labours of those who, not 'speaking a Celtic language as their mother-tongue, acquired a scholarly knowledge of it for themselves. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

List of members in each vol.