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and in which the word " suddenly" is often substituted for 

 " sullenly," was printed falsely in the copy before the German 

 translator. In the second stanza, " The struggling moon- 

 beam's misty light," is lost probably from some similar reason. 

 The general eflect of Wolfe's poem is exceedingly well pre- 

 served in the translation ; but there are several mistakes in 

 detail, most of which, perhaps all, arise from the translator's 

 having used an incorrect copy of the original. The ti*ans- 

 lation is printed in the octavo edition of " Hayward's Faust,** 

 p. 304. 



The Rev. Dr. Todd, V.P., having taken the Chair, Pro- 

 fessor Lloyd read a supplement to his paper, " On the Mu- 

 tual Action of Permanent Magnets in an Observatory," 

 printed in the Transactions, Vol. XIX. p. 159. 



This supplement was immediately printed in the same 

 volume of the Transactions. 



May 10. 



Sir Wm. R. HAMILTON, LL.D., President, in the Chair. 



Oliver Sproule, Esq., and James Thompson, Esq., were 

 elected Members of the Academy. 



A note on some new Properties of Surfaces of the second 

 Order, by John H. Jellett, Esq., F.T.C.D., was read. 



I. Let the points on the focal conic, at which the tangent 

 is parallel to the trace of the tangent plane, be considered 

 analogous to foci. 



II. Let the axis of the surface, perpendicular to the plane 

 of the conic, be considered analogous to the conjugate axis ; 

 then, since the square of the distance from focus to centre, in 

 a conic, is equal to the difference between the squares of the 

 transverse and conjugate semi-axis, we may consider, as ana- 

 logous to the transverse semi-axis, the line drawn to the ex- 



