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nal of Physiology and successfully publishing it 

 for many years, the council was entrusted to ar- 

 range for the dedication of a volume of the Jour- 

 nal to Dr. Porter. 



The following persons were elected to member- 

 ship in the society: A. Arkin, University of West 

 Virginia; A. T. Cameron, University of Manitoba; 

 P. M. Dawson, University of Wisconsin; C. M. 

 Gruber and E. B. Krumbhaar, University of Penn- 

 sylvania; E. N. Harvey, Princeton University; 

 11. L. Higgins, nutrition laboratory of the Car- 

 negie Institution; Jessie L. Kiag, Goucher College; 

 P. C. McLean, Rockefeller Institute; S. Morgulia 

 and E. L. Scott, Columbia University; G. B. Roth, 

 Hygienic Laboratory, Washington. 



Officers for 1915 



President — W. B. Cannon. 



Secretary — C. W. Greene. 



Treasiorer — J. Erlanger. 



Additional Memters of the Council — W. H. 

 Howell, J. R. Maeleod, W. E. Garrey, W. J. Meek. 



Despite the imusual defaults in the matter of 

 the scientific program, and the presence of only a 

 few members from the Atlantic seaboard, the meet- 

 ing was a success, due largely to the considerate 

 efforts and the generous hospitality of the "local 

 committee." The opportunity to inspect the new 

 laboratories and the hospitals of Washington 

 University Medical School by itself more than 

 compensated for the trip to St. Louis. It appears 

 that this school has actually made an advance be- 

 yond the ' ' stone age ' ' of the American universi- 

 ties in general. In material equipment for med- 

 ical research and teaching, Washington Univer- 

 sity Medical School is second to none, if not su- 

 perior to all other medical schools in this country. 

 A. J. Carlson, 



Secretary 



University op Chicago, 

 January, 1915 



TSE AMEBICAN MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY 

 The twenty-first annual meeting of the society 

 was held at Columbia University on Friday and 

 Saturday, January 1-2, 1915, the attendance at 

 the four sessions including 95 members, a consid- 

 erable increase over previous records. The occasion 

 was especially marked by the delivery of Presi- 

 dent Van Vleck's retiring address, the subject of 

 which was "The role of the point-set theory in 

 geometry and dynamics." 

 At the opening session President Van Vleck took 



the chair, being relieved by Vice-president L. P. 

 Eisenhart and at the closing session by the Presi- 

 dent-elect, Professor E. W. Brown, and Vice-presi- 

 dent Veblen. The following new members were 

 elected: Dr. Plorence E. Allen, University of Wis- 

 consin; Dr. Nathan Altshiller, University of Wash- 

 ington; Dr. D. F. Barrow, University of Texas; 

 Dr. R. B. Robbins, Sheffield Scientific School; Mr. 

 C. H. Teaton, University of Chicago. Fifteen 

 applications for membership in the society were 

 received. 



At the annual election the following officers 

 and members of the council were chosen: 



President — E. W. Brown. 



Vice-presidents — F. R. Moulton, Oswald Veblen. 



Secretary — F. N. Cole. 



Treasurer — J. H. Tanner. 



Librarian — D. E. Smith. 



Committee of Puilication' — ^F. N. Cole, VirgU 

 Snyder, J. W. Young. 



Memiers of the Council — G. D. BirkhofE, 0. E. 

 Glenn, R. G. D. Richardson, W. H. Roever. 



The total membership of the society is now 722, 

 including 72 life members. The treasurer's re- 

 port shows a balance of $9,461.75. Sales of publi- 

 cations during the past year amounted to $1,843.67. 

 The library now contains about 5,100 volumes, ex- 

 clusive of unbound dissertations. 



A most agreeable social concomitant of the an- 

 nual meeting was the dinner and smoker at the 

 Yale Club on Friday evening. Seventy members 

 took advantage of this opportunity to renew and 

 extend the acquaintance which is one of the valued 

 objects of the society. 



The following papers were read at this meeting: 



L. P. Eisenhart : ' ' Transformations of sur- 

 faces Q." 



L. L. Silverman : "On the notion of summabil- 

 ity for the limit of a function of a continuous 

 variable." 



A. B. Coble: "A configuration in finite geom- 

 etry. ' ' 



A. B. Coble : ' ' The elliptic norm curve in S,. " 



J. E. Rowe: "The symmetric and actual form 

 of certain combinants of two binary m-ics. " 



Arthur Ranum: "On the differential geometry 

 of the cyclic (circled) surfaces." 



A. B. Frizell: "An enumeration of integral alge- 

 braic polynomials. ' ' 



Dunham Jackson: "Expansion problems with 

 irregular boundary conditions. ' ' 



G. M. Green : ' ' Hypersurf aces and families of 

 curves defined by solutions of a partial differen- 

 tial equation of the second order. ' ' 



