CONTENTS. 
I. On the Grounds of the Method which Laplace has given in the 
second Chapter of the third Book of his Mecanique C 41 este/or 
computing the Attractions of Spheroids of every Description . 
By James Ivory, A. M. Communicated by Henry Brougham, 
Esq. F. R. S. M. P. p. i 
II. On the Attractions of an extensive Class of Spheroids. By 
J. Ivory, A. M. Communicated by Henry Brougham, Esq,. 
F. R. S. M. P. p. 46 
III. An Account of some Peculiarities in the Structure of the Organ 
of Hearing in the Balcena Mysticetus of Linnaeus. By Everard 
Home, Esq. F. R. S. p. 83 
IV. Chemical Researches on the Blood , and some other Animal 
Fluids. By William Thomas Brande, Esq. F. R.S. Commu- 
nicated to the Society for the Improvement of Animal Chemistry , 
and by them to the Royal Society. p. go 
V. Observations of a Comet, with Remarks on the Construction of 
its different Parts. By William Herschel, LL.D. F. R. S. 
p. 115 
VI. On a gaseous Compound of carbonic Oxide and Chlorine . By 
John Davy, Esq. Communicated by Sir Humphry Davy, Knt. 
LL. D. Sec. R. S. p. 144 
VII. A Narrative of the Eruption of a Volcano in the Sea off the 
Island of St. Michael. By S. Tillard, Esq. Captain in the 
Royal Navy. Communicated by the Right Hon. Sir Joseph 
Banks, Bart. K. B. P . R. S. p. 152 
