JANUARY 12, 1912] 
Tuer seventeenth meeting of the Association 
of Teachers of Mathematics for the Middle 
States and Maryland was held at Columbia 
University on Saturday morning and after- 
noon, December 2. The morning program 
consisted of the following papers: (1) “An 
Allegation applied to the Calculations of 
Analytical and Industrial Chemistry,” by W. 
A. Ballon, Pratt Institute; (2) “ What Sub- 
jects in the High School Mathematics are of 
Greatest Use in Preparation for Analytical 
Geometry and Calculus in College,” by W. J. 
Babt, of the University of Pennsylvania, and 
A. S. Gale, of the University of Rochester. 
In the afternoon the program consisted of 
(1) “Educational Values in Mathematical 
Instruction,” by H. E. Hankes, of Columbia 
University; (2) “Provisional Report of the 
National Geometry Committee of Fifteen,” by 
Howard F. Hart, of the Montclair High 
School. The following officers were elected: 
President—lI. J. Schwatt, University of Penn-_ 
sylvania. 
Vice-president—A. E. King, Erasmus Hall High 
School, Brooklyn. 
Secretary—H. F. Hart, Montclair High School, 
Montclair, N. J. 
Treasurer—Susan C. Lodge, Philadelphia Col- 
legiate Institute, Philadelphia. 
Council Members—A. S. Gale, University of 
Rochester, Rochester; J. T. Rowe, Wm. Penn High 
School, Philadelphia; Harry English, Division of 
High School Mathematics, Washington. 
Tue first annual dinner of the Edinburgh 
University Club of North America, was held 
on December 27, at the University Club in the 
City of New York. Professor Clarence 
Webster, Chicago, the president of the club, 
occupied the chair, and about sixty alumni of 
Edinburgh University were present. Con- 
gratulations upon the birth of the club were 
received from the chancellor of the univer- 
sity, the Right Hon. Arthur J. Balfour, M.P., 
from Principal Sir William Turner, K.C.B., 
from the last lord rector, Lord Haldane, of 
Cluan, from the university parliamentary 
representative Sir Robert Baunatyne Finlay, 
from Sir Alexander R. Simpson, Dr. George 
A. Gibson and others. The Hon. Joseph H. 
Choate, LL.D., Edin., discoursed eloquently 
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upon “Our Alma Mater”; the Right Rev. 
Frederick Bishop Courtney, upon “Scottish 
Character”; Professor Prince, Ottawa, 
Canadian Commissioner of Fisheries, upon 
“United States” and Sir James Grant, 
Ottawa, upon “ Canada.” The club bard, Mr. 
Robert Easton, charmed every one with his 
rendering of Scotch songs. Great enthusiasm 
prevailed. The first function of the club was 
a marked success. Graduates and under- 
graduates of the university are eligible for 
full membership of the club. Fellows and 
licentiates of the Royal Colleges and post- 
graduate students of Edinburgh University 
may, as associate members, attend the annual 
dinners. Any who are interested are invited 
to communicate with the secretary, Edin- 
burgh University Club, 20 East Sixty-ninth 
St., New York City. 
WE learn from the British Medical Journal 
that on December 6 a dinner was given to 
welcome Professor Newstead on his return 
from the sleeping sickness expedition to 
Nyasaland and to wish godspeed to Dr. Harald 
Seidelin on his departure on a yellow fever 
expedition to Yucatan. Owing to having con- 
tracted a chill, Professor Newstead was unable 
to be present. Sir William H. Lever, who 
was in the chair, in proposing the toasts of the 
evening, remarked that the trustees of Sir 
Alfred Jones had intimated that they would 
come to the assistance of the school, and, in 
addition to better accommodation in Liver- 
pool, it was proposed to establish a laboratory 
on the West Coast of Africa, where investiga- 
tions into tropical diseases might be made on 
the spot. The government had given support 
to their movement, but he considered it was 
not adequate, and he echoed Sir Owen Phil- 
lips’s opinion that it should grant to the Lon- 
don and Liverpool Schools £10,000 annually. 
If America had succeeded in making the Pan- 
ama zone healthy, there was no reason why 
they should not, with adequate financial sup- 
port, make West Africa sanitary. 
A MEETING of the trustees of the Beit Memo- 
rial Fellowships for Medical Research was 
held on Tuesday, December 19, when ten fel- 
lows were elected. Hach fellowship is of the 
