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Alcseus that have been handed down to us. The peculiarities 

 of the style of Hafiz were then detailed, and mention made of 

 the existing English translations of his poems. The author 

 read several of his odes, now for the first time^ translated into 

 English, and the paper concluded with a refutation of the 

 charge of mysticism that Von Hamner and other German 

 critics have attributed to Hafiz. 



Dr. Thomson presented the following — Comparison of an 

 Aneroid Barometer with the Standard Barometer of the Liver- 

 pool Observaiory, by John Habtnup, F.R.A.S. 



