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XIX. Inquiri-es and Answers. 



XX. Dr. Hook's Papers. 



XXI. Halley's Papers. 



XXII. (1) and (2). Accounts of Books. 



XXIII. (1) and (2). Inoculations. 



XXIV. Papers by Collins, Oldenburg and Hook. 

 XXV. Political: Trade. 



George T. Kunz 



SCIENTIFIC JOURNALS AND ARTICLES 

 The July number (volume 8, No. 3) of 

 the Transactions of the American Mathe- 

 matical Society contains the following papers : 



J. W. Young : " General theory of approxima- 

 tion by functions involving a given number of 

 arbitrary parameters." 



E. R. Hedkick: "On derivatives over assem- 

 blages." 



Beppo Levi : " Geometrie proiettive di congru- 

 enza e geometrie proiettive finite." 



Oswald Veblen : " Collineations in a finite 

 projective geometry." 



R. L. MooEE : " Geometry in which the sum of 

 the angles of every triangle is two right angles." 



O. Veblen and J. H. Maclagan-Wedderbuen : 

 " Non-desarguesian and non-pascalian geometries." 



L. E. Dickson : " Modular theory of group- 

 matrices." 



OsKAE BoLZA: "Existence proof for a field of 

 extremals tangent to a given curve." 



G. A. Buss : " A new form of the simplest prob- 

 lem of the calculus of variations." 



A. E. Young : " On certain isothermic surfaces." 



The Library Journal for July contains an 

 article on " The Library and the Museum," 

 by Henry L. Ward, in which he takes the 

 ground that a union of the two is imprac- 

 ticable, that the two differ radically in their 

 methods and administration and that all at- 

 tempts to unite them have been failures so 

 far as the museum part is concerned. 



Bird-Lore for July-August contains articles 

 on " A Southern California Aviary," by H. L. 

 Sefton; "A Eeport on the Nesting Birds in 

 the Vicinity of Riverview Park, Allegheny, 

 Pa., for 1906," by W. G. Pitcairn, comprising 

 95 nests of 20 species, 43 nests turning out 

 successfully in spite of the small boy. F. H. 

 Herrick contributes the first half of a paper 

 on " Bird Protection in Italy as it impresses 



the Italian " ; apparently it does not on the 

 whole impress him favorably, for he considers 

 that all birds should be killed and eaten, an 

 idea he tries to carry into practise here. W. 

 W. Cooke contributes the fourth paper on 

 " The Migration of Thrushes " which consists 

 mainly of a fine colored plate. There are 

 " Notes on the Starling," predicting that the 

 importation of this bird will be as greatly de- 

 plored as that of the English sparrow. There 

 are important articles on the failure of New 

 Jersey to pass a bill prohibiting spring shoot- 

 ing and on the failure of the bill to permit 

 the sale of certain species of foreign game in 

 New York. William Dutcher makes a strong 

 plea for the preservation of the wood duck, 

 showing that unless radical steps are soon 

 taken the bird will be exterminated. 



SOCIETIES AND ACADEMIES 



THE NORTH CAROLINA ACADEMY OF SCIENCE 



The North Carolina Academy of Science 

 held its sixth annual meeting at Chapel Hill, 

 N. C, May 17 and 18, 1907. 



The academy was called to order by its 

 president, Collier Cobb, and an address of 

 welcome was extended to the academy by 

 President Francis P. Venable of the univer- 

 sity. A response to the address was made 

 by the retiring president, John F. Lanneau, 

 of the Academy of Science. 



In the evening the academy met in Ger- 

 rard hall, and the presidential address " The 

 Garden, Field and Forest of the Nation " was 

 delivered. Following this address a reception 

 was extended to the visiting members in the 

 Y. M. C. A. building. Saturday, May 18, at 

 9 A.M. the academy convened for a business 

 meeting. Twenty-one new members were 

 elected. The following officers were elected 

 for the ensuing year: 



President — T. Gilbert Pearson, of Greensboro, 

 N. C. 



Vice-president — W. C. Coker, of Chapel Hill. 



Secretary — E. W. Gudger, of Greensboro. 



Members of the Executive Committee — Franklin 

 Sherman, Jr., of Raleigh ; J. J. Wolfe, of Durham, 

 and John F. Lanneau, of Wake Forest. 



The report of the treasurer showed a bal- 

 ance of $122.53. 



