JULY 28, 1899. ] 
AMERICAN MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY. 
For several years the need of greater facilities 
for the publication of mathematical investiga- 
tions has been strongly felt by the members of 
the American Mathematical Society. This So- 
ciety has maintained during the past eight 
years an historical and critical review, known 
as the Bulletin of the American Mathematical So- 
ciety, and throughout the whole of this period 
there has been a constantly growing demand 
for the publication in the pages of this journal 
of articles not properly falling within its scope. 
The Society, feeling that the time has come 
when further provision must be made for the 
publication of such articles, recently invited the 
cooperation of several American colleges and 
universities in a plan whereby such articles may 
be afforded suitable means of publication. 
The necessary cooperation has now been se- 
cured, and the publication of the Transactions 
of the American Mathematical Society has been 
definitely undertaken to begin January 1, 1900. 
The cooperating institutions are Harvard Uni- 
versity, Yale University, Princeton University, 
Columbia University, Haverford College, North- 
western University, Cornell University, The 
University of California, Bryn Mawr College 
and The University of Chicago. It is the de- 
sire of the Society that the Transactions may 
cooperate with existing journals in developing 
a wider and more active interest in mathemat- 
ical research. Among American journals the 
Annals of Mathematics will encourage papers of 
pedagogic nature and brief researches of gen- 
eral interest ; the Bulletin of the American Mathe- 
matical Society will maintain its character as an 
historical and critical review, and the American 
Journal of Mathematics and the Transactions of 
the American Mathematical Society will together, 
it is hoped, afford adequate facilities for the 
publication of the rapidly increasing volume of 
the more technical mathematical papers. 
The Transactions will be devoted primarily 
to research in pure and applied mathematics. 
The editors will welcome all papers containing 
investigations of sufficient mathematical inter- 
est and value. Such papers, in many cases, 
will be, necessarily, of considerable length ; but 
the editors will be very glad to receive, also, 
short contributions which are of such a char- 
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acter as to fall within the scope of the Trans- 
actions. Papers from mathematicians not be- 
longing to the Society will be welcomed; such 
papers, if accepted for publication, will be 
presented to the Society by the editors. 
The Transactions of the American Mathematical 
Society will be published quarterly. The first 
number will appear January 1, 1900. The 
page of the Transactions will be the same size 
as that of the Berlin Sitzwngsberichte. The sub- 
scription price for the annual volume of at least 
four hundred pages is five dollars, twenty 
shillings, twenty Marks, or twenty-five francs. 
A reduction in price will be made, however, to 
the members of the American Mathematical 
Society. Subscriptions and payments should 
be sent to the office of the American Mathemat- 
ical Society, 501 West 116th Street, New York. 
Cheques and postal money orders should be 
made payable to the American Mathematical 
Society. 
Manuscripts intended for publication in the 
Transactions should be addressed either to Pro- 
fessor E. H. Moore, University of Chicago, 
Chicago, Ill., or to Professor F. W. Brown, 
Haverford College, Haverford, Pa., or to Pro- 
fessor T. 8. Fiske, Columbia University, New 
York, N. Y. 
SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS. 
LorpD KELVIN, who for fifty-three years has 
occupied the chair of natural philosophy at 
Glasgow, presented to the University Court on 
July 13th a petition for leave to retire. The 
Court granted the leave asked, and accepted 
Lord Kelvin’s resignation with deep regret. 
A remit was made to the Principal to prepare a 
minute to be signed by all the members of the 
Court, expressing their sense of the great loss 
that the University is now to sustain. 
ProFessor F, ZEEMAN, of Amsterdam, has 
been awarded the Baumgartner Prize of the 
Vienna Academy of Sciences, and Dr. K. Nat- 
terer, docent in chemistry in the University of 
Vienna, the Lieben Prize of the Academy. 
THE Academy of Sciences of Berlin has given 
Professor Engler 4,000 Marks for work in 
botany. 
THE third Conference of Astronomers and 
