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SCIENCE. 



[N. S. Vol. XIX. No. 472. 



Stevens Institute of Technology; Miss Vir- 

 ginia Eag.sdale, New York City; S. E. 

 Rasor, Ohio State University; A. E. 

 Young, Purdue University; J. B. Wright, 

 Bryn Mawr College. Six applications for 

 membership were received. 



Annual reports were received from the 

 treasurer, librarian and secretary. The 

 society continues to hold its own finan- 

 cially. It could accomplish more if larger 

 fujids were at its disposal. The library 

 has increased to over 1,300 volumes, and 

 now receives by exchange with the Bulletin 

 and Transactions the current volumes of 

 nearly every mathematical journal in the 

 world. The membership of the society is 

 now 455, a gain of 54 during the past 

 year. The 'Annual Register' will be is- 

 sued about the middle of January. 



Committees were appointed to arrange 

 for the publication of the course of lec- 

 tures delivered at the Boston colloquium, 

 September, 1903, and to consider the ques- 

 tion of the future financial support of the 

 Transactions, which has hitherto been pub- 

 lished by the aid of subventions termina- 

 ting in 1904. 



The following papers were read at the 

 annual meeting: 



E. V. Huntington: ' A set of independent postu- 

 lates for the algebra of logic ( second paper ) .' 



J. G. Hun : ' On certain invariants of two tri- 

 angles.' 



0. D. Kellogg: 'Note on Cauchy's integral.' 



J. I. Hutchinson : ' On certain antomorphic 

 functions.' 



W. F. Osgood: 'On a gap in the usual presenta- 

 tion of Weierstrass's theory of functions.' 



E. V. Huntington: 'Third complete set of 

 postulates for the theory of positive integers.' 



E. V. Huntington : ' Second complete set of 

 postulates for the theory of magnitudes or positive 

 real quantities.' 



W. B. FiTE : ' On some properties of groups 

 whose orders are powers of a prime.' 



E. J. WlLCZYNSKi : ' On ruled surfaces whose 

 flecnode curve intersects every generator in ' two 

 coincident points.' 



Virgil Snyder: 'Complete enumeration of 

 sextic scrolls having a rectilinear directrix.' 



F. MoRLEY : ' On the triplicity of 3-points in a 

 plane.' 



C. L. E. MooEE: 'Classification of surfaces of 

 singularities in the quadratic spherical complex.' 



L. D. Ames: 'On the theorem of analysis situs 

 relating to the division of the plane or of space 

 bj' a closed curve or surface.' 



W. B. FoED: ' On the function defined by a 

 Maclaurin series.' 



P. F. Smith: 'Linear transformations of a 

 quadratic form into itself.' 



E. B. Wilson: 'Projective and metrical geom- 

 etry.' 



C. H. SiSAM : ' On the depiction of the lines of 

 a special linear complex on the points of space.' 



Edward Kasner : ' Investigations on isothermal 

 systems.' 



About fifty persons attended the meet- 

 ing. On Monday evening an informal 

 dinner contributed to the pleasures of the 

 occasion. 



The next meeting of the society will be 

 held at Columbia University on February 

 27. The Chicago Section will meet again 

 in April and the San Francisco Section in 

 May. F. N. Cole, 



Secretary. 



SCIENTIFIC BOOKS. 



The General Principles of Physical Science. 

 By Arthur A. Noyes. New York, Henry- 

 Holt & Co. 1902. Pp. vii + 172. 

 This is the first volume of a work on 

 which the author is engaged, entitled the 

 ' General Principles of Chemistry.' The pres- 

 ent volume is introductory and has for its 

 purpose the setting forth of the laws and gen- 

 eral principles of physics and chemistry, so 

 far at least as these underlie the broad subject 

 which the author has undertaken. 



The present treatment is altogether syste- 

 matic and not historical, and is intended for 

 readers and students who are making special 

 study of what is now generally known as 

 physical chemistry. 



The book contains four chapters : I., ' The 

 Object, the Methods, and the Sub-divisions 

 of Science ' ; II., ' The Fundamental Con- 



