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Professor Lloyd read a note on a new electrical phe- 
nomenon. 
The Rev. J.H. Todd, F.T.C.D., gave a short account 
of a MS. of the four Gospels, of the seventh century and in 
Irish characters, which is preserved in the Library of his 
Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury at Lambeth. The 
volume is a small quarto, in the minute hand called Caroline, 
common to all Europe in the reign of Charlemagne, but now 
used only in Ireland, and known as the Irish character. The 
present volume appears to have belonged to Maelbrigid 
Mac Dornan, or Mac Tornan, who was Archbishop of Ar- 
magh in the ninth century, and died A. D. 925. By him it 
was probably sent as a present to Athelstan, King of the 
Anglo-Saxons, who presented it to the city of Canterbury. 
These facts are inferred from the following inscription in 
Anglo-Saxon characters, (and in a hand of the ninth or be- 
ginning of the tenth century,) which occurs on a blank page 
immediately following the genealogy in the first chapter of 
St. Matthew. 
YX MEIELBRIDVS. MAC. 
DVRNANI. ISTVM. TEXTYM. 
PER. TRIQVADRVYM. DO. 
DIGNE. DOGMATIZAT. 
MM AST. AETHELSTANVS. 
ANGLOSAXANA. REX. ET. 
RECTOR. DORVERNENSI. 
METROPOLI. DAT. PER. ZVVM. 
The former part of this inscription Mr. Todd professed 
himself unable to translate to his own satisfaction. Textus, 
in the Latinity of the middle ages, is a term frequently em- 
ployed to denote the Four Gospels; but dogmatizare, in 
the same dialect, is generally used in a bad sense, to assert 
“erroneous or heretical opinions, a signification which it can- 
not well bear here: triguadrus, when used as an adjective, 
