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SCIENCE 



[N. S. Vol. XXV. No. 637 



of the University of Pennsylvania, is an- 

 nounced. It will be published monthly, be- 

 ginning in March, except during the summer 

 months, each volume containing about 300 

 pages. " The Psychological CUnic will be de- 

 voted primarily to the study and treatment 

 of mentally and morally deficient children, 

 but this will not preclude the consideration 

 of other types deviating from the normal 

 child, nor yet of that hypothetical type, 

 the so-called normal child. The methods of 

 clinical psychology are necessarily invoked 

 wherever the status of an individual con- 

 sciousness is determined by observation and 

 experiment, and pedagogical treatment applied 

 to affect a change, i. e., the development of 

 such individual mind. Whether the subject 

 be a child or an adult, the result of examina- 

 tion and treatment may be conducted and 

 expressed in the terms of the clinical method. 

 Thus, the phenomena of adolescence, of crim- 

 inality and insanity, are best investigated by 

 the clinical method. The neurologist and 

 psychiatrist are just awakening to a realiza- 

 ■ tion of the psychological and pedagogical sig- 

 nificance of the treatment usually prescribed 

 in cases of hysteria, psychasthenia, aphasia 

 and allied mental disorders." 



SOCIETIES AND ACADEMIES 



THE AMERICAN MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY 



The one hundred and thirty-second meeting 

 of the society was held at Columbia Uni- 

 versity on Saturday, February 23. President 

 H. S. White and Vice-President P. P. Smith 

 occupied the chair at the two sessions. Thirty- 

 three members were present. The following 

 new members were admitted to the society: 

 Professor T. M. Pocke, Case School of Ap- 

 plied Science; Dr. D. C. Gillespie, Cornell 

 University; Professor C. C. Grove, Hamilton 

 College; Professor T. W. Palmer, University 

 of Alabama ; Professor N. A. Pattillo, Ean- 

 dolph-Maeon Woman's College; Mr. F. D. 

 Posey, University of Chicago; Miss Gertrude 

 Smith, Vassar College; Dr. A. L. Underbill, 

 Princeton University. Ten applications for 

 membership were received. 



Professor J. H. Tanner was elected treasurer 



of the society, to succeed Dr. W. S. Dennett, 

 who retires after seven years' service. Pro- 

 fessor E. H. Moore, who has been editor-in- 

 chief of the Transactions since the founding 

 of that journal in 1899, retires from the edi- 

 torial committee at the completion of the 

 present volume. The vacancy in the com- 

 mittee was filled by the election of Professor 

 Maxime Bocher. Appropriate resolutions ex- 

 pressing the society's grateful appreciation of 

 the services of these retiring officers were 

 adopted. 



A standing finance committee, consisting of 

 the treasurer. Professor Brown, and Dr. Den- 

 nett, was established to have charge of the in- 

 vestment of the life-membership and surplus 

 funds of the society. For the better regula- 

 tion of the presentation of papers, it was 

 ordered that papers should hereafter be read 

 in the order and at the session announced 

 on the printed program, except that papers 

 whose reading is postponed may be read at the 

 close of a session. Papers not on the printed 

 program, but accepted for presentation, will 

 be read at the close of a session after the 

 printed list is exhausted. Abstracts of papers 

 will hereafter be included in the printed pro- 

 gram if furnished at least three weeks in ad- 

 vance of the meeting. 



The Annual Eegister of the society, con- 

 taining the list of officers and members, con- 

 stitution and by-laws, reports of officers, cata- 

 logue of the library, etc., has recently been 

 issued. Copies can be obtained from the 

 secretary. 



The following papers were read at this meet- 

 ing: 



R. D. Caemichael: 'On dividing an angle into 

 parts having the ratio of any given straight lines.' 



R. D. Caemichael: 'A table of multiple per- 

 fect numbers.' 



G. A. MiLLEE : ' The groups generated by three 

 operators each of which is the product of the other 

 two.' 



R. P. Stephens : ' On a quintic with three par- 

 allel tangents in any direction.' 



E. B. Wilson : ' On the revolutions of a dark 

 body about the sun.' 



C. N. MooEE : ' On the introduction of con- 

 vergence factors into summable series and sum- 

 mable integrals.' 



