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OFFICERS, 1890-1891 



President, .... Professor Frank H. Loud. 



Vice-Presidents, Professors William Strieby and Eloise Wickard. 

 Secretary, .... Professor Florian Cajori. 



Treasurer, ..... Mr. O. H. Richardson. 



PLACE OF MEETING. 

 PALMEK HALL, COLORADO COLLEGE. 



TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



PAGE I 



Announcement 5 



A Rigorous Elementary Proof of the Binomial Theorem. F. H. 



Loud 7 



On Certain Cubic Curves. F. H. Loud 16 



A Study of the Inductive Theories of Bacon, Whewell, and MilL 



Benj. Ives Gillman 17 



A Matbematical Text-book of the Last Century. F. Cajori 27 



Horace, Od. III. 1. 34. George L. Hendrickson 34 



Quinti Ciceronis Commentariolum Petitionis XI, § 43. (B. et K. 



vol. IX, p. 487.) George L. Hendrickson 36 



