CONTENTS. 
I. The Croonian Lecture on Muscular Motion. By Everard 
Home, Esq. F. R. S. page 1 
II. Some Particulars in the Anatomy of a Whale. By Mr. 
John Abernethy. Communicated by Everard Home, Esq. 
F. R. S. p. 27 
III. An Account of the late Discovery of Native Gold in Ire- 
land. In a Letter from John Lloyd, Esq. F. R. S. to Sir 
Joseph Banks, Bart. K. B. P. R. S. p. 34, 
IV. A miner alogical Account of the Native Gold lately disco- 
vered in Ireland. In a Letter from Abraham Mills, Esq. to 
Sir Joseph Banks, Bart. K. B. P. R. S. p. 38 
V. The Construction and Analysis of geometrical Propositions , 
determining the Positions assumed by homogeneal Bodies which 
float freely, and at rest , on a Fluid 's Surface ; also determin- 
ing the Stability of Ships , and of other floating Bodies. By 
George Atwood, Esq. F R. S. p. 46 
VI. Account of the Discovery of a new Comet. By Miss Caroline 
Herschel. In a Letter to Sir Joseph Banks, Bart. K. B. 
P. R. S. p 131 
VII. Mr. Jones's Computation of the Hyperbolic Logarithm of 
10 improved : being a Transformation of the Series which he 
used in that Computation to others which converge by the 
Powers of So. To which is added a Postscript , containing an 
