26 Mr. C. Chree. Elastic Solid Ellipsoids under [May 10, 



Corona Spectrum from Slit Spectroscope Photographs (continued). 



VI. " The Stresses and Strains in Isotropic Elastic Solid Ellip- 

 soids in Equilibrium under Bodily Forces derivable from a 

 Potential of the Second Degree." By C. CHREE, M.A., 

 Fellow of King's College, Cambridge, Superintendent of 

 Kew Observatory. Communicated by Professor W. G. 

 ADAMS, F.R.S. Received March 2, 1894. 



(Abstract.) 



If a system of bodily forces whose values per unit mass are derived 

 from the potential 



V 1 cp 



^~ 2 \ 



acts on an ellipsoid 



