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ciation. — Chas. E. Bouton, Harvard University 

 (D) ; Paul Capron (D) ; Mr. Nichols, Brown 

 and Nichols School, Cambridge (D). 



Association of Teacher's of Mathematics in 

 the Middle States and Maryland. — John C. 

 Bechtel ; Fletcher Durell, Lawrenceville, N. J. ; 

 A. Newton Ebaugh; Miss Susan C. Lodge; 

 Donald C. MacLaren; Wm. H. Metzler, Syra- 

 cuse University (D) ; J; T. Rorer, Central 

 High School, Philadelphia (D) ; Arthur 

 Schultze, High School of Commerce, N. Y. 

 <D) ; H. C. Whitaker. 



Central Association of Science and Mathe- 

 ■matics Teachers. — Otis W. Caldwell; Jos. V. 

 Collins (D); C. E. Comstock (D) ; G. W. 

 Greenwood (D) ; Charles H. Smith ; Charles 

 M. Turton; J. W. Young, Charles W. Wright. 



Missouri Society of Teachers of Mathe- 

 matics. — F. T. Appleby; J. S. Bryan, Central 

 High School, St. Louis (L)) ; H. Clay Harvey 

 (D); E. R. Hedrick (D) ; B. F. Johnston; 

 John R. Kirk; J. W. Whiteye. 



Chicago and Cook County High School 

 Teachers' Association. — Edward E. Hill (D) ; 

 Fred R. Nichols (D) ; Chas. M. Turton (D). 



Mathematical Section of Michigan School- 

 Master's Cluh. — Miss Emma C. Ackermann 



(D). 



New YorJc State Science Association, Mathe- 

 matical Department. — Glenn M. Lee. 



North Eastern Ohio Center, G.A.S. and M.T^ 

 — Lemar T. Beman, Cleveland High School 

 (D); Charles A. Marple (D). 



Ohio Association of Teachers of Mathe- 

 matics and Science. — Franklin T. Jones (D) ; 

 Wm. McLair (D). 



St. Louis Association of Science and Mathe- 

 matics Teachers. — Wm. Schuyler, McKinley 

 High School, St. Louis (D). 



DLWUS8I0N AND CORRESPONDENCE. 

 THE BOLYAI PRIZE. 



America will rejoice that at last Hungary 

 is honoring herself in honoring her wonder- 

 child, John Bolyai. His marvel diamond, the 

 most extraordinary two dozen pages in the 

 history of human thought, appeared in 

 America in English before it appeared in 

 Plungary in Magyar, proud as they are of 



their language; and more, the American was 

 reproduced entire in Japan before even the 

 original was reproduced in Plungary. 



An American, not a European, was the first 

 from outside Hungary to make the journey to 

 Maros-Vasarhely only for John Bolyai's sake 

 and to see there the letter in Magyar which 

 constitutes his preemption claim and title-deed 

 to the new universe, and to publish for the 

 first time that letter making the date 1823 ever 

 memorable. On its publication thus in 

 America Charles S. Peirce wrote in The Na- 

 tion, March 17, 1892, p. 212 in a review of 

 Halsted's Bolyai: 



There is a winningly enthusiastic letter from 

 Bolyai Janes to his father, telling him of the 

 great step. He says : " I have discovered such 

 magnificent things that I am myself astonished 

 at them. It would be damage eternal if they 

 were lost. When you see them, my father, you 

 will yourself acknowledge it. At present I can 

 not say more than that from nothing I have 

 created a wholly new world." 



Ten years later this letter was published in 

 Hungary in Magyar and Latin, and now comes 

 the establishment of the great Bolyai prize 

 (Prix Bolyai) by the Hungarian Academy of 

 Sciences, of which the statutes are as follows : 



1. On the occasion of the hundredth anniversary 

 of the birth of John Bolyai the Hungarian Acad- 

 emy of Sciences wishing to perpetuate the memory 

 of this illustrious scientist, as likewise that of 

 the profound thinker, Farkas Bolyai, his father 

 and teacher, has decided to establish a prize to 

 be called the Bolyai Prize. This prize, which is 

 to consist of a commemorative medal — whose ob- 

 verse will represent the academy with the view 

 of Budapest, and whose reverse will bear an in- 

 scription — and of a sum of ten thousand crowns, 

 shall be adjudged for the iirst time in 1905, then 

 every five years, to the author of the best work in 

 mathematics published during the five preceding 

 years. 



The prize may be given to any work deemed 

 worthy of it, whatever the language in which it 

 be written, and in whatever form it be published. 



The announcement of the winner will take place 

 during the general meeting of the academy in 

 December. 



2. In case the work of a deceased author be 

 deemed worthy the prize, this shall be given to his 

 heirs. • 



3. The third section of the academy, section of 



