1893.] on Isoperimetrkal Problems. 119 



stability iii an oblate hollow vessel, each caused to rotate rapidly 

 round its axis of figure,* which were announced to Section A of the 

 British Association at its Glasgow meeting in 1876 as results of 

 an investigation not then published, and which has not been pub- 

 lished up to the present time. 



[K.] 



* ' Nature,' 1877, vol. 15, p. 297, « On the Preeessional Motion of a Liquid,' 



WEEKLY EVENING MEETING, 

 Friday May 19, 1893. 



Basil Woodd Smith, Esq. F.R.A.S. F.S.A. Vice-President, in the 



Chair. 



Alfred Austin, Esq. 

 Poetry and Pessimism. 



[No Abstract.] 



