CONTENTS. 
I. An Account of the Discovery of a Comet. In a Letter from 
Miss Caroline Herschel to Joseph Planta, Esq. Sec. R. S. 
page 1 
II. Account of a new Pendulum. By George Fordyce, M, D. 
F. R. S. ; being the Bakerian Lectui'e. p. 2 
III. Some Facts relative to the late Mr. John Hunter's prepa- 
ration for the Croonian Lecture. By Everard Home, Esq. 
F. R. S. P-2i 
IV. Observations of a quintuple Belt on the Planet Saturn. By 
William Herschel, LL. D. F. R. S. p. 28 
V. Observations on the fundamental Property of the Lever ; 
with a Proof of the Principle assumed by Archimedes, in his 
Demonstration. By the Rev. S. Vince , A. M. F. R. S. p. 33 
VI. Account of some Particulars observed during the late Eclipse 
of the Sun. By William Herschel, LL.D. F. R. S. 39 
VII. The Latitudes and Longitudes of several Places in Den- 
mark ; calculated from the Trigonometrical Operations. By 
Thomas Bugge, F. R. S. Regius Professor of Astronomy at 
Copenhagen. p ^ 
VIII. On the Rotation of the Planet Saturn upon its Axis. By 
William Herschel, LL. D. F. R. S. p. 48 
