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AssoeiatioH of America. Professor Oswald 

 Veblen, chairman of the section, presided. 



The program comprised the following ad- 

 dresses : 



1. A mechanical analogy in the theory of equa- 



tions, by Professor D. R. Curtiss, retiring 

 vice-president of Section A. 



2. The research information service of the Na- 



tional Seseareh Council, by Professor R. M. 

 Terkes, of the National Research Council. 



3. Subsidy funds for mathematical projects, by 



Professor H. E. Slaught. 



4. Algebraic guides to transcendental problems, 



by Professor R. D. Carmichael, retiring 

 chairman of the Chicago Section of the 

 American Mathematical Society and vice- 

 president of the Mathematical Association 

 of America. In the absence of Professor 

 Carmichael, an abstract of his paper was 

 read by Professor Arnold Dresden. 



At a meeting of the sectional committee pre- 

 ceding this program, the follovring nomination 

 was made for chairman of the section, to pre- 

 side as vice-president for Section A at Boston 

 and to give his retiring address at Cincinnati : 

 Professor G. A. Miller, of the University of 

 Illinois. At a business meeting of the section 

 following the program this nomination was ap- 

 proved, and Professor Miller was elected at a 

 meeting of the council of the association, held 

 on December 30. 



A joint dinner for mathematicians and 

 physicists was given at Burwash Hall on Fri- 

 day evening, December 30. 



Wm. H. Roever, 



Secretary 



SECTION B— PHYSICS — AND ASSOCIATED 

 SOCIETIESi 



Section B of the American Association held 

 its session on Thursday morning, December 29, 

 1921, in conjunction with Section C of the 

 American Association, the American Physical 

 Society, the American Meteorological Society, 

 and the Section of the Physical Science Com- 

 mittee of the National Research Council. Pro- 

 fessor John C. McLennan, of the University of 

 Toronto, retiring vice-president for Section B, 

 delivered his address on "Atomic nuclei and 



1 Toronto, December, 1921. 



extranuclear electronic configuration." The 

 vice-presidential address was followed by a 

 symposimn on the Quantum Theory, with the 

 following speakers: (A) R. C. Tolman, direc- 

 tor. Fixed Nitrogen Research Laboratory, 

 "Washington, representing Section C (Chemis- 

 try), A. A. A. S., "Review of the present status 

 of the two forms of the Quantum Theory"; 

 (B) H. B. Phillips, Massachusetts Institute of 

 Technology, Cambridge, representing the 

 American Mathematical Society, "Mathemat- 

 ical aspects of the Quantum Theory"; (C) Saul 

 Dushman, The General Electric Company, 

 Schenectady, N. T., representing the American 

 Physical Society, "Some recent applications of 

 the Quantum Theory to Spectra." This meet- 

 ing proved to be of very great general interest. 



At the business meeting of Section B, C. A. 

 Skinner, of the Bureau of Standards, was 

 elected to be a member of the section com- 

 mittee, his term of office to end January 1, 

 1926. Dr. F. A. Saunders, of Harvard Uni- 

 versity, is the vice-president for Section B for 

 1922. 



The American Physical Society. — This soci- 

 ety held sessions beginning Wednesday, Decem- 

 ber 28, and continuing until Friday afternoon. 

 The annual business meeting of the society 

 was held on Friday, December 30, at which 

 time the following officers were elected: Presi- 

 dent, Theodore LjTnan, Harvard University, 

 Cambridge, Mass.; Vice-president, Charles E. 

 Mendenhall, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 

 Wis. ; secretary, Dayton C. Miller, Case School 

 of Applied Science, Cleveland, Ohio; treasurer, 

 G«orge B. Pegram, Columbia University, New 

 York, N. Y. The president of the Amer- 

 ican Physical Society gave an address on 

 "The spectroscopy of the extreme ultra-violet." 

 The physicists' dinner was held on Friday 

 evening at Hart House. During the sessions 

 of the society 77 scientific contributions were 

 read. 



American Meteorological Society. — Sessions 

 were held beginning Wednesday mor nin g, De- 

 cember 28, and continuing through Thursday 

 afternoon. The annual business meeting was 

 held on Thursday morning, and the following 

 officers were elected : _ President, Sir Frederic 

 Stupart, 315 Bloor Street, Toronto, Canada; 



