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SCIENCE 



[N. S. Vol. XXVI. No. 677 



SCIENTIFIC JOURNALS AND ARTICLES 



The closing (October) number of volume 

 8 of the Transactions of the American Mathe- 

 matical Society contains the following papers : 



Mas. Mason : " The expansion of a function in 

 terms of normal functions." 



Maueice Fe^chet : " Sur les operations \m& 

 aires (troisifeme note)." 



A. G. Geeenhill: "The elliptic integral in 

 electromagnetic theory." 



Also " Notes and errata, volume 8," and index 

 of volume. 



The December number (volume 14, number 

 3) of the Bulletin of the American Mathe- 

 m,atical Society contains: Report of the Sep- 

 tember Meeting of the San Francisco Section, 

 by W. A. Manning ; " On Quadratic Forms 

 in a General Field," by L. E. Dickson; "On 

 the Canonical Substitution in the Hamilton- 

 Jacobi Canonical System of Differential 

 Equations," by D. C. Gillespie; "The Maxi- 

 mum Value of a Determinant," by F. R. 

 Sharpe; "Third Report on Recent Progress 

 in the Theory of Groups of Finite Order," 

 by G. A. Miller ; " The Dresden Meeting of 

 the Deutsche Mathematiker-Vereinigung," by 

 C. A. Noble; "Bryan's Thermodynamics," by 

 E. B. Wilson; "Shorter Notices" (G. Vi- 

 vanti's Funzioni Poliedriche e Modular!, by 

 J. I. Hutchison; J. Sommer's Vorlesungen 

 iiber Zahlentheorie, by G. H. Ling; L. Cou- 

 turat's Les Principes des Mathematiques, by 

 J. W. Young); "Notes"; "New Publica- 

 tions." 



The January number of the Bulletin con- 

 tains: Report of the October Meeting of the 

 Society, by F. N. Cole ; " On Triple Algebras 

 and Ternary Cubic Forms," by L. E. Dickson ; 

 " Isothermal Systems in Dynamics," by E. 

 Kasner ; " On the Equations of Quartic 

 Surfaces in Terms of Quadratic Forms," by 

 0. H. Sisafa ; " Symbolic Logic " (Review of 

 works by Centura t, MacColl and Shearman), 

 by E. B. Wilson; "Shorter Notices" (H. 

 DurSge's Elemente der Theorie der Funk- 

 tionen (fifth edition), by J. Pierpont; H. 

 Burkhardt's Elliptische Funktionen, by J. 

 Pierpont; Bromwich's Quadratic Forms, by 

 Maxime Bocher) ; " Notes " ; " New Publica- 

 tions." 



SOCIETIES AND ACADEMIES 



THE CONVOCATION WEEK MEETINGS OP 



SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES 



The Am erican Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science and the national scientific 

 societies named below will meet at the Uni- 

 versity of Chicago during convocation week, 

 beginning on December 30, 1906. 



American Association for the Advancement of 

 Science. — December 30-January 4. Retiring presi- 

 dent. Professor W. H. Welch, The Johns Hopkins 

 University, Baltimore, Md.; president-elect. Pro- 

 fessor E. L. Nichols, Cornell University, Ithaca, 

 N. Y.; permanent secretary. Dr. L. 0. Howard, 

 Cosmos Club, Washington, D. C. ; general secre- 

 tary. President P. W. McNair, Houghton, Mich. 



Local Executive Committee. — Charles L. Hutch- 

 inson, chairman local committee; John M. Coulter, 

 chairman executive committee; John R. Angell, 

 Thomas C. Chamberlin, Joseph P. Iddings, Frank 

 R. Lillie, Charles R. Mann, Robert A. Millikan, 

 Charles F. Millspaugh, Alexander Smitli, J. Paul 

 Goode, local secretary. 



Section A, Mathematics and Astronomy. — Vice- 

 president, Professor E. O. Lovett, Princeton Uni- 

 versity; secretary, Professor G. A. Miller, Univer- 

 sity of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois. 



Section B, Physics. — Vice-president, Professor 

 Dayton C. Miller, Case School of Applied Science; 

 secretary, Professor A. D. Cole, Vassar College, 

 Poughkeepsie, N. Y. 



Section C, Chemistry. — Vice-president, Professor 

 H. P. Talbot, Massachusetts Institute of Technol- 

 ogy; secretary. Professor Charles L, Parsons, New 

 Hampshire College, Durham, N. H. 



Section D, Mechanical Science and Engineering. 

 — Vice-president, Professor Clin H. Landreth, 

 Union College; secretary. Professor Wm. T. Ma- 

 gruder, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio. 



Section E, Geology and Geography. — Vice-presi- 

 dent, Professor J. P. Iddings, University of Chi- 

 cago; secretary. Dr. Edmund 0. Hovey, American 

 Museum of Natural History, New York City. 



Section F, Zoology. — Vice-president, Professor 

 E. B. Wilson, Columbia University; secretary, 

 Professor C. Judson Herrick, University of Chi- 

 cago. 



Section G, Botany. — Vice-president, Professor 

 C. E. Bessey, University of Nebraska; secretary. 

 Professor F. E. Lloyd, Desert Botanical Labora- 

 tory, Tucson, Arizona. 



Section H, Anthropology and Psychology. — Vice- 

 president, Professor Franz Boas, Columbia Uni- 



