ON boscovichVs j'heory. 439 



noons ass(Miiblaf;«' of doublo, or triple or imiltiplo JJoscox icb atoni.s. On 

 the contrary, any arbitrarily chosen valnes may be given to the bulk- 

 moduhis and to the rigidity, by i)roper adjnstment of the law of force, 

 even thongh we take nothing more complex than the homogeneons 

 assemblage of doable Boscovich atoms above described. 



The most interesting and important part of the snbject, the kinetic, 

 was, for want of time, bnt slightly touched in the communication to 

 Section A. The author hoi)es to enter on it more fully in a future 

 communication to the Koyal Society of Edinburgh. 



