226 REPORTS ON INVE;STIGATI0NS AND PROJECTS. 



CLASSICS OF INTERNATIONAL LAW. 

 Scott, James Brown, General Editor, Washington, District of Columbia. 



Professor Holland has completed his edition of Zouche and Mr. Brierly 

 has made a very careful translation of the Latin text. The two volumes have 

 just been issued. 



Professor Westlake has also finished his editorial work on Ayala and Mr. 

 Bate's translation of the Latin text has been completed. It is expected that 

 these two volumes will be published before the close of the present year. 



Professor von Bar's introductions to the proposed editions of Rachel and 

 Textor have been received, but the translations have not been made as yet. 

 The translators will be selected soon. 



Professor de Lapradelle's introduction to Vattel has not yet been received, 

 but is definitely promised. The text has been reproduced photographically 

 and the translation is in progress. 



Professor Jellinck reported shortly before his death that he had finished 

 the introductions to the two works of Wolf to be included in the series. 

 They have not, however, been received as yet, and it may prove that they 

 need further revision. 



The translation of the De Jure Belli ac Pacis of Grotius by Rev. John D. 

 Maguire is substantially completed, and will be submitted for printing at an 

 early date. 



The De Jure Prsedse exists in manuscript form in the Library of the Uni- 

 versity of Leyden and is now being photographed for the series. As soon 

 as this difficult task is accomplished, Dr. Maguire will set himself to its 

 translation. There is no English version of this important work, which, 

 interesting in itself, throws much light upon the great masterpiece of 1625. 

 The reproduction of the manuscript by photography will be appreciated by 

 scholars as an extraordinarily interesting example of the Latin of scholars 

 of the sixteenth century, while the English translation will place the text 

 within the reach of the general reader. 



MATHEMATICS. 



Morley, Frank, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland. Grant 

 No. 647. The application of Cremona groups to the solution of algebraic 

 equations. (For previous report see Year Book No. 9.) $1,000 



Under the grant of 1910-11 Dr. J. R. Conner has conducted an investiga- 

 tion of rational curves, regarding them as projections of the so-called norm- 

 curves. He has given special attention to the cases of the quintic and the 

 sextic and has written a memoir on each, which will appear during the 

 coming year. 



The salient point of the memoir on the quintic is the use made of multiple 

 correspondences ; that of the memoir on the sextic is the covariant surfaces 

 of the sextic in space ; one of these covariants is Cayley's symmetroid, so 

 that we have a new and effective method of investigating this surface. 



