54 PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON. 
23p MEETING. ApRIL 14, 1886. 
The Chairman, Mr. Wiii1aAm B. Taytor, elected at the last 
meeting, presided, and upon taking the chair offered a few remarks 
expressive of his appreciation of the honor conferred upon him and 
of his desire for the prosperity of the Section. 
Present, seventeen members and one guest. 
Mr. R. S. Woopwarp recited, in abstract, the principal points of 
his paper of the preceding meeting, and there ensued a general dis- 
cussion of the subject, in which Messrs. BAKER, DooxiTrie, HILL, 
Pau, THomAs RussELL, STONE, TAYLOR, aND WOODWARD par- 
ticipated. 
Mr. C. H. KumME t then presented a paper 
ON THE USE OF SOMOFF’S THEOREM FOR EVALUATION OF THE 
ELLIPTIC INTEGRAL OF THE THIRD SPECIES. 
[This paper will appear in full in Annals of Mathematics, vol. 2, 
Nos. 4 and 5.] 
Remarks were made by Mr. Hu. 
