CAPILLARY ATTRACTION. 



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them have been reproduced on an enlarged scale, 

 and are now on the screen before you. 1 Three of 



FIG. ii. 



the diagrams, those to which I am now pointing 

 (Figs. 10, ii, and 12), illustrate strictly theoretical 



1 The diagrams here referred to were first published in Figs. 10 

 to 24 of the Nature report of this Lecture (July 22 and 29, and 

 August 19, 1886). 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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