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with the American Mathematical Society, Section 

 A of the American Association, and the American 

 Astronomical Society. At this session Professor 

 Ernest W. Brown, the retiring president of the 

 society, gave his retiring address on "The Eela- 

 tions of Mathematics to the Natural Sciences." 

 This was followed by the retiring address of Pro- 

 fessor A. O. Leuschner, vice-president of Section 

 A of the American Association, on "Derivation of 

 Orbits — Theory and Practise." A joint dinner of 

 these four organizations was held Thursday eve- 

 ning, following which speeches were made by Pro- 

 fessor Plorian Cajori, President E. J. Aley, Mr. 

 William Bowie, Professor J. A. Miller, Mr. G. A. 

 Plimpton, and Professor Dunham Jackson. 



The meeting on Friday morning was first ad- 

 dressed by Professor Plorian Cajori, of Colorado 

 College, who read a paper on ' ' Discussions of 

 Pluxions from Berkeley to Woodhouse. ' ' Professor 

 M. W. Haskell, of the University of California, 

 gave a paper entitled "University Courses in 

 Mathematics Intended for Teachers of Secondary 

 Mathematics." This was followed by a discussion 

 led by Professor J. W. Young, of Dartmouth Col- 

 lege, and Professor Edward Kasner, of Columbia 

 University. During the time between the morning 

 and afternoon sessions, opportunity was afforded 

 by Professor David Eugene Smith for the inspec- 

 tion of his admirable collection of portraits and 

 medals of mathematicians. On Friday afternoon 

 was held the meeting of institutional delegates. 

 This department of the association was organized 

 for the consideration of those phases of collegiate 

 mathematics which are of an institutional char- 

 acter rather than of merely individual interest; 

 such questions as entrance requirements, require- 

 ments for degrees, maintenance of libraries, etc., 

 will properly come under this department. The 

 program was devoted to the subject of mathe- 

 matical libraries, and consisted of a paper on " A 

 Nucleus for a Mathematical Library, ' ' by Dr. T. H. 

 Gronwall, of New York City, and of the reading of 

 a report from the recently appointed library com- 

 mittee by the chairman, Professor W. B. Ford, of 

 the University of Michigan, with an accompanying 

 discussion. The program closed on Saturday morn- 

 ing with an address on "The Mathematics of 

 Aerodynamics" by Professor E. B. Wilson, of the 

 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, with a dis- 

 cussion led by Professor A. G. Webster, of Clark 

 University. 



The annual election is conducted both by mail 

 and in person at the meeting; in this way a total 

 of 405 ballots was received. The list of officers 

 elected for the year 1917 is given herewith: 



President, Elorian Cajori. 



Vice-presidents, Oswald Veblen, D. N. Lehmer. 



Secretary-Treasurer, W. D. Cairns. 



Members of the executive council to serve until 

 January 19$0, E. E. Hedrick, Helen A. Merrill, 

 E. B. Moritz, D. E. Smith. 



E. V. Huntington was chosen by the council to 

 fill the vacancy caused in the council by the pro- 

 motion of Professor Cajori to the presidency. 



Fifteen persons and sixteen institutions were 

 elected to membership; thus 1,064 individuals (de- 

 ducting the number of those who have died dur- 

 ing 1916) and 76 colleges and universities of the 

 United States and Canada now hold membership 

 in the association. Applications from thirteen in- 

 dividuals and one institution have been received 

 since the New York meeting. 



The association has a system of sections organ- 

 ized by the members of the various groups, mostly 

 those within state lines. Such sections now exist 

 in Kansas, Ohio, Missouri, Iowa, Indiana, Ken- 

 tucky and Minnesota, with a section covering 

 Maryland, the District of Columbia, and Virginia. 



The report of the treasurer showed that a fund 

 of $958.72 had been transferred to the association 

 from the former management of the American 

 Mathematical Monthly, and that the business for 

 the year 1916 closed with a balance of approxi- 

 mately two hundred dollars. 



An important arrangement has been entered into 

 by the association with the Annals of Mathematics, 

 which bids fair to exert an important influence 

 upon the development of collegiate mathematics, 

 in that it will foster the production and publica- 

 tion of articles of an expository and historical na- 

 ture. In consideration of a subvention from the 

 association, the board of editors of the Annals 

 will increase the size of the magazine from 200 

 pages (its present size) to 300 pages annually, be- 

 ginning with the number for June, 1917.. The 

 subscription price for individual members of the 

 association will be one half of the ordinary price, 

 which latter will be three dollars instead of the 

 present price, two dollars. 



The summer meeting of the association will be 

 held by invitation of Case School of Applied Sci- 

 ence and Western Eeserve University at Cleveland, 

 Ohio, on September 6 and 7, in conjunction with 

 the meeting of the American Mathematical So- 

 ciety, with which the association has rightly so 

 much in common. The next annual meeting will 

 be held by invitation at the University of Chicago 

 next December, in connection with the meeting of 

 the Chicago Section of the society. 



W. D. Caiens, 

 Secretary-Treasurer 



