An adjustment to 782 ground state nuclear charge radii for nuclei with N,Z ≥ 8 leads to R0 = 1.2257 A 1/3 fm and σ = 0.124 fm for the charge radius. Assuming such a Coulomb energy Ec = 3 5 eZ/1.2257 A 1 3 , the coefficients of different possible mass formulae derived from the liquid drop model and including the shell and pairing energies have been determined from 2027 masses verifying N,Z ≥ 8 a...