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on Capillary Attraction. 



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scale, and are now on the screen before you.* Three of these diagrams, 

 those to which I am now pointing (Figs. 10, 11, and 12), illustrate 

 strictly theoretical solutions — that is to say, the curves there shown 



Fig. 10. 



* The diagrams here referred to are now published in Figs. 10 to 21 of the 

 present report of the lecture at the Eoyal Institution. These figures are accurate 

 copies of Mr. Perry's original drawings, and I desire to acknowledge the great 

 care and attention which Mr. Cooper, engraver to Nature^ has given to the work. 



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