502 



Velleris Augusto Csesare sub Carolo 



Hujus Caenobii 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 oflBcial paper, some- 

 thing like a placard : if bears date 1st 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. XXXI. 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 lar^e 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 



