502 
Velleris Augusto Cesare sub Carolo 
Hujus Czenobii tenuit moderamina pastor % 
Terdenis annis pervigil atque tribus.” 
This also bears date a. D. 1531. 
Vol. XXX. In this volume, which is an historical col- 
lection upon the governors of the ‘‘ Low Countries,” will be 
found No. 16367, being the order of battle as given by Mar- 
shal Saxe before the celebrated battle of Fontenoy. It was 
printed at Gand, ‘* par ordre,” and is on official paper, some- 
thing like a placard: it*bears date Ist May, 1746. 
It may be mentioned, that the order of battle, as presented 
in this paper, was not the one observed, as it differs materially 
from a plan of the engagement which is in the possession of 
the writer, and which was copied from that sent to the King 
of Prussia after the battle; a copy of this latter plan was 
also published at Lille in 1745, attached to Voltaire’s Poem 
on Fontenoy, and had it not been correct it would not have 
been attached to the writings of a court poet. However, the 
discrepancy is easily accounted for; the Marshal may have 
changed his mind, and countermanded his orders as first issued. 
Vol. XX XI. is a small portfolio, containing, among 
other numbers, 17056; this is entitled ** Anecdotes a la vie de 
St. Dympna,” and is merely a short notice of that saint, not 
differing from the ordinary memoir of her; it occupies but one 
sheet of foolscap. 
Mr. Ingram read the following note on certain Properties 
of Curves and Surfaces of the Second Degree. 
** The object of the present communication is to show that 
several large classes of the properties of curves and surfaces of 
the second degree, most of which, though of considerable in- 
terest for their generality and elegance, have hitherto been 
little studied by geometers, may, with advantage, be regarded 
as results of that simplest form of the polar transformation, in 
which a circle or a sphere (according as we are studying the 
