A survey is given of the principal methods which have been used by various workers for the determination of the density (or specific volume) of pure metals and binary alloy systems in the liquid state. A selection of results obtained with the various methods for certain pure metals (Ag, Cu, Zn, Sn) and alloy systems (Cu-Sn, Ag-Sn, Bi-Sn, Pb-Sn, Cu-Pb, Ag-Bi, Ag-Pb and Hg-TI) is displayed and discussed. The need for further systematic study of the density of alloy systems e.g. in the case of the Group Ib-lVb systems is stressed. A comprehensive survey of references to existing density measurements made on binary alloy systems up to the present time is given in an appendix.