NovEMBER 10, 1899.] 
SOCIETIES AND ACADEMIES. 
AMERICAN MATHEMATIUAL SOCIETY. 
A REGULAR meeting of the American Math- 
ematical Society was held at Columbia Uni- 
versity, New York City, on Saturday, Octo- 
ber 28th. Thirty-one persons attended the two 
sessions, and twelve papers were presented. 
Immediately at the opening of the morning ses- 
sion arecess was taken to enable the members 
to. hear the Presidential Address of Professor 
Rowland before the American Physical Society, 
which met in the same building. The simul- 
taneous meeting of the two societies naturally 
resulted in a reinforcement of interest and ac- 
tivity, and it is hoped that this and other coop- 
erative action may become the established order. 
It has been arranged with a view to economy 
of time that hereafter the morning session of 
the meetings of the Society shall open at 11 
o’clock, and the afternoon session at 2 o’clock. 
The Council will meet at 10:15 A. M. 
The Editorial Board announced that the ar- 
rangements for publishing the Transactions, the 
newly created organ of the Society, were in a 
most favorable state of progress. The first num- 
ber will appear January 1, 1900. The fact that 
two first-class journals are not only possible but 
actually required for the publication of the math- 
ematical output of this country is a striking 
evidence of the growth of the science here in 
the last few years. 
The following persons were elected to mem- 
bership in the Society : 
Professor M. E. Bogarte, Northern Indiana 
Normal School, Valparaiso, Ind.; Mr. A. 3S. 
Gale, Yale University ; Mr. B. L. Groat, Uni- 
versity of Minnesota; Dr. Edward Kasner, 
Columbia University ; Professor J. A. Miller, 
University of Indiana; Professor A. M. Sawin, 
Clark University, Atlanta, Ga.; Professor S. A. 
Singer, Capital University, Columbus, Ohio; 
Dr. H. E. Slaught, University of Chicago ; Pro- 
fessor E. P. Thompson, Miami University, Ox- 
ford, Ohio. Seven applications for membership 
were received. 
The following papers were read : 
(1) Professor PAUL GORDAN : ‘ Formentheore- 
tische Entwickelung der in Herrn White’s 
Abhandlung tiber Curven dritter Ordnung 
enthaltenen Satze.’ 
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(2) Professor E. O. Lovett: ‘The transfor- 
mation of straight lines into spheres.’ 
(8) Dr. G. A. MILLER: ‘On the simply trans- 
itive primitive groups.’ 
(4) Professor CHARLOTTE ANGAS Scorr: ‘The 
conditions imposed on a curve by assigned 
multiple points.’ 
(5) Professor E. H. Moore: ‘On the gener- 
ational determination of abstract groups’ 
(preliminary communication). 
(6) Professor CHARLOTTE ANGAS ScoTT: ‘The 
status of imaginariesin pure geometry.’ 
(7) Professor MAXIME BocHER: ‘On Sturm’s 
theorem of comparison’ (preliminary com- 
munication). 
(8) Professor F. Mortry: ‘On a funda- 
mental geometric construction.’ 
(9) Mr. E. B. Witson: ‘The decomposition 
of the general collineation of space into 
three skew reflections.’ 
(10) Dr. G. A. MinueR: ‘On the order of the 
product of two substitutions.’ 
(11) Mr. J. K. Warrremore: ‘On a general- 
ization of the fundamental problem of 
the calculus of variation.’ 
(12) Mr. J. L. Coontmper: ‘A projective rep- 
resentation of the imaginary points of a 
plane.’ 
The next meeting of the Society, which will 
be held on Thursday, December 28th, will be 
the annual meeting for the election of officers. 
The Chicago Section will meet at the University 
of Chicago on Thursday and Friday, December 
28-9. At the annual meeting President Wood- 
ward will deliver a Presidential Address on 
‘The Century’s Progress in Applied Mathe- 
matics.’ F. N. Coue, 
Secretary. 
TORREY BOTANICAL CLUB. 
Av the meeting on October 10, 1899, nine 
new members were elected. 
A series of nature-printed plant-plates was 
exhibited by Monsieur Alois Barta, temporarily 
at 521 East 82d Street, including alge and 
phanerogams, all printed in natural colors. 
They excited great interest on account of their 
beauty and slight expense. 
Dr. MacDougal referred to the success of the 
Sullivant Day at the Columbus meeting of the 
