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SCIENCE 



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Edward Kasner : " Catenaries in an arbitrary 

 field of force." 



W. B. Carver: "Degenerate pencils of quadrics 

 connected with r,"!{;4, „ configurations." 



C. F. Craig: "On a class of hyperfuchsian func- 

 tions." 



Virgil Snyder : " Surfaces and congruences de- 

 rived from the cubic variety having a double line 

 in four-dimensional space." 



W. B. Ford : " Irreducible homogeneous linear 

 groups in an arbitrary infinite field." 



Arthur Ranum : " On certain solids in riemann- 

 ian space." 



Arthur Ranum : " On the rank of a matrix." 



H. B. Phillips : " Polygons on a quadric surface." 



J. G. Hardy : " Note on a theorem of Pirondini 

 concerning four-dimensional curves." 



E. B. Coble: " Combinants of binary forms." 



The twenty-fourth regular meeting of the Chi- 

 cago Section was held at the University of Chicago 

 on i^'riday and Saturday, January 1-2. The next 

 meeting of the society falls on Saturday, February 

 27, at Columbia University. The San Francisco 

 Section will meet on the same day at Stanford 

 University. The sixteenth summer meeting and 

 sixth colloquium will be held at Princeton Uni- 

 versity during the entire week September 13-18. 

 The first two days will be devoted to the regular 

 sessions for the presentation of papers. At the 

 colloquium, which will open on Wednesday morn- 

 ing, the following special courses of lectures will 

 be given : Professor G. A. Bliss, " Existence the- 

 orems in analysis"; Professor J. H. Jeans, 

 " Statistical mechanics " ; Professor Edward Kas- 

 ner, " Geometric aspects of dynamics." 



F. N. Cole, 



SOCIETIES AND ACADEMIES 



THE INDIANA ACADEMY OF SCIENCE 



The annual meeting of the Indiana Academy 

 of Science pursuant to the new plan of holding 

 meetings at the various institutions of learning 

 in the state, was held at Purdue University on 

 November 26-28. A large representation of the 

 educators of the state was present and many 

 papers were read that were of interest and im- 

 portance. Thirty-five names were added to tne 

 roll of the membership, and a number of men who 

 once were residents of the state and active mem- 

 bers of the academy were elected to non-resident 

 membership. The retiring president. Professor 

 Glenn Culbertson, of Hanover College, delivered 



an address on the subject " Deforestation and its 

 Efi'ects among the Hills of Southern Indiana." 

 Significant among the papers read was tne num- 

 ber bearing on practical scientific problems. Fol- 

 lowing is the program in full. 

 General 



" Work of the Pathological Laboratory of the 

 Central Indiana Hospital for the Insane," Dr. 

 Geo. F. Edenharter. 



" New Species of Birds in Indiana," Amos 

 Butler. 



" The Recent International Congress on Tuber- 

 culosis," Severance Burrage. 



" Biography and the Iniluence of Environment," 

 Robert Hessler. 



" Felkner Island, Waber Lake, Kosciusko 

 County, Indiana," J. P. Dolan. 



"A Strange Nurse," A. J. Bigney. 



Drawing of the Indians at " Shaker" (made by 

 an Indian in the Indian School), presented by 

 Albert B. Reagan. 



" Invasion of a School Building by Bed-bugs, 

 Acanthia hirundinis, parasites on Chimney Swifts," 

 H. E. Enders. 



" Photographs of Morehouse's Comet, 19081 " 

 (lantern), W. A. Cogshall. 



" Selective Fertilization among Fishes," W. J. 

 Moenkhaus. 



" Nature Study," J. G. Coulter. 

 Botany 



" Field Observations on Rusts for the General 

 Botanist," J. C. Arthur. 



" The Rust of Timothy," F. D. Kern. 



" Notes on the Heterecious Rusts of Indiana," 

 Aaron G. Johnson. 



"Some Anomalies in the Endosperm of Pinus," 

 D. M. Mottier. 



"x.otes on the Seedless Persimmon," Wm. L. 

 Woodburn. 



" A Preliminary List of the Fungi o Indiana," 

 J. M. Van Hook. 



"Testing Seed Corn by Specific Gravity," H. A. 

 Dunn. 



" Notes on the Flora of Cass County, Indiana," 

 Robert Hessler. 



" Bean Anthracnose," M. F. Barrus. 



" Endophytic AlgiE," Jacob Schramm. 



" iieport of Work in Corn Pollination," M. L. 

 Fisher. 



" Jillect of the Recent Drought upon "Forest 

 Trees," Stanley Coulter. 



"Difference between Pinus tceda and Pmus pal- 

 ustris," Katherine G. Bitting. 



" A Forest Problem," W. H. Freeman. 



