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SCIENCE 



[Vol. LV, No. 1428 



THE ELIAKIM HASTINGS MOORE FUND 



On the occasion of the twenty-flfth anniver- 

 sary meeting of the Chicago Section of the 

 American Mathematical Society, held in Chi- 

 cago on April 14 and 15, 1922, the following 

 resolutions, with the names of 174 contributors, 

 were presented to Professor E. H. Moore in a 

 beautifully bound and illuminated manuscript: 



Conscious of the great influence which you have 

 exercised upon the developmeht of mathematical 

 science throughout this country, particularly in 

 the Middle West during the last twenty-five years. 



Admiring the outstanding qualities of your re- 

 searches in various fields of mathematics, 



Grateful for the inspiration and the encour- 

 agement which you have given to those who have 

 come to the University of Chicago to study mathe- 

 matics, 



Eecognizing the large contribution which you 

 have made to the creation and the growth of the 

 Chicago Section of the American Mathematical 

 Society, 



Deeply appreciative of the friendship which, 

 during many years, you have shown toward those 

 who have had the good fortune to know you. 



The undersigned members of the American 

 Mathematical Society, formerly students of math- 

 ematics at the University of Chicago, or members 

 of long standing in the Chicago Section, have 

 wished to use the opportunity afforded by the 

 twenty-fifth anniversary meeting of the Chicago 

 Section to present to you a testimonial, which is 

 intended to link your name in the years to come 

 with the development of mathematics in this 

 country. 



To this end they have contributed to a fund 

 which is to be offered for trusteeship to the 

 American Mathematical Society upon the follow- 

 ing conditions: 



1. The fund is to be known as the Eliakim 

 Hastings Moore Fund. 



2. The interest on the fund is to be used at the 

 discretion of the council of the society, and upon 

 the recommendation of a committee appointed 

 from time to time for this purpose, in furtherance 

 of such mathematical interests as 



(a) The publication of important mathematical 

 books and memoirs. 



(h) The award of prizes for important con- 

 tributions to mathematics; 



it being further recommended that during the 

 next ten years preference be given to the former, 

 and that publication of Professor E. H. Moore's 



researches in general analysis or other fields shall 

 have precedence over all other claims. 



3. The fund is to be kept intact by the Amer- 

 ican Mathematical Society except in so far as it 

 is used to aid in the publication of Professor 

 Moore's researches. For this special purpose a 

 part of the principal, not exceeding one third, 

 may be used provided the interest on the remain- 

 der be allowed to accumulate until the fund has 

 been restored to its original value. 



The trusteeship of the Eliakim Hastings 

 Moore Fund was accepted by the council of 

 the American Mathematical Society at its meet- 

 ing on April 15. The society intends to keep 

 the fund, which now amounts to nearly $2,000, 

 open for further contributions so that it may 

 become the nucleus for a much larger fund at 

 the disposal of the American Mathematical 

 Society for aid in the publication of important 

 mathematical work. Contributions may be sent 

 to the secretary of the society, Professor 

 R. G. D. Richardson, Brown University, Provi- 

 dence, Rhode Island. 



Arnold Dresden 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



At the recent meeting of the National Acad- 

 emy of Sciences, Dr. Joseph S. Ames, pro- 

 fessor of physics at the Johns Hopkins Uni- 

 versity, and Mr. Gano Dunn, president of the 

 J. G. White Engineering Corporation, were 

 elected members of the council. Delegates from 

 the academy were appointed as follows : To 

 the seventh centenary of the University of 

 Padua, May 14 to 17, 1922, H. D. Curtis and 

 r. H. Seares; to the hundred and fiftieth anni- 

 versary of the Academie Royale des Sciences 

 de Belgique, May 24, R. A. Millikan; to the 

 sessions of the International Research Council, 

 Brussels, beginning July 18, George E. Hale 

 and R. A. Millikan. 



Prom the fund collected bj' the women of 

 America to present a gram of radium to Mme. 

 Curie, there remains, after about $110,000 had 

 been paid for the radium, a surplus of about 

 $50,000, the annual income from which will be 

 given to Mme. Curie. 



Sir Bayley Balfour, regius keeper of the 

 Botanic Garden at Edinburgh and professor 

 of botany in the university since 1888, has 



