344 Mr. P. Cooper on Capillary Attraction, 



Day of Obs. 25 

 Equinox 23-2842 = Sept. 23** 6»» 49" at Edinburgh, 



or 23d 7h2m at Greenwich. 



In this manner were determined, 



1. Sept. 18th, by observation . . . 23'^-2785 



2. „ 23 -2692 



3. „ 24 -2806 



4. „ 25 -2842 



5. „ 26 -2699 



Mean 23-2765 



h. m. s. 



On Sept. 23rd, at 6 38 10 



Longitude in time ...*... -f- 12 44 W 



Time at Greenwich ...... 6 50 54 



By Nautical Almanac 6 57 6 



Difference — 612 



which might arise from an error of 5" or 6" in the aggregate 

 of the latitude and observed declinations, and on account 

 of the unfavourable state of the weather in Sept. last. 



William Galbraith. 



54, South Bridge, June I, 1836. 



Article VI. 



On Capillary Attraction, and on the disposition there is in 

 Fluids to assume a Globular Form; with introductory 

 observations upon some galvanic combinations connected with 

 the explanation of these subjects. By Paul Cooper, Esq. 



I HAVE lately published a sketch of a system of natural 

 philosophy, which appears to me to connect the operations 

 of nature upon general principles ; and wishing to obtain 

 the opinions of philosophers as to the correctness of my 

 views, before I publish the work from which the abstract 

 is taken, I beg to submit the following paper to your 

 readers, although the subjects, I trust, are sufficiently im- 

 portant to claim their attention, partly for the purpose of 

 illustrating the principles upon which it is founded. 



It is assumed in this theory, that bodies are formed of 



