Januaby 20, 1911] 



SCIENCE 



117 



Washington University: W. E. Garrey, D. E. 

 Jackson. 



University of Pittsburgh: C. Brooks, R. E. 

 Sheldon. 



Cornell University: J. R. Greer, E. Sachs, J. F. 

 McClendon. 



Columbia University: W. G. MacCallum. 



Western Reserve University: D. Marine. 



Yale University: L. L. Woodruff. 



The following officers were elected for the year 

 1911: 



President — S. J. Meltzer. 



Secretary — A. J. Carlson. 



Treasurer — W. B. Cannon. 



Members of the Council — J. Erlanger, F. S. Lee. 

 A. J. Cablson, 



Univeksitt of Chicago 



THE AMERICAN MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY 

 The seventeenth annual meeting of the Amer- 

 ican Mathematical Society was held at Columbia 

 University on Wednesday and Thursday, Decem- 

 ber 28-29, 1910, extending through the usual 

 morning and afternoon sessions on each day. 

 Sixty-two members were in attendance. President 

 Maxime BScher took the chair at the opening ses- 

 sion, yielding it to Professor Kasner, Ex-president 

 Osgood, and at the morning session on Thursday 

 to the president-elect. Professor H. B. Pine. The 

 council announced the election of the following 

 persons to membership in the society: Professor 

 Percy Hodge, Columbia University; Mr. C. G. P. 

 Kusehke, University of California; Professor 

 Marion B. White, University of Kansas. Eight 

 applications for membership in the society were 

 received. 



On Wednesday evening thirty of the members 

 gathered at the annual dinner, which has for 

 many years been a pleasant adjunct to the regu- 

 lar sessions. 



It was decided to hold the summer meeting of 

 the society at Vassar College in 1911, and at the 

 University of Pennsylvania in 1912. A commit- 

 tee, consisting of Professors H. S. White, P. F. 

 Smith and the secretary, was appointed to make 

 the necessary arrangements for the summer meet- 

 ing of 1911. 



At the annual election, which concluded on 

 Thursday morning, the following officers and 

 other members of the council were chosen: 



President — Professor H. B. Fine. 



Vice-presidents — Professors G. A. Bliss and W. 

 E. Story. 



Secretary — Professor F. N. Cole. 

 Treasurer — Professor J. H. Tanner. 

 Librarian — Professor D. E. Smith. 

 Committee of Publication — Professors F. N. 

 Cole, E. W. Brown and Virgil Snyder. 



Members of the Council (to serve until Decem- 

 ber, 1913)— Professors H. F. Blichfeldt, J. L. 

 Coolidge, C. J. Keyser and J. W. Young. 



The total membership of the society is now 642, 

 including GO life members, an increase of 24 dur- 

 ing the past year. The total attendance at all 

 meetings of the year was 317; the number of 

 papers presented was 145; 202 votes were cast at 

 the annual election. The treasurer's report shows 

 a balance of $8,124.53, a slight increase over last 

 year, although the university subventions for the 

 Transactions, amounting to $500 per annum, have 

 been discontinued and the society has paid an 

 installment of 1,000 francs of its contribution 

 toward the publication of the works of Euler. 

 The income from sales of the society's publica- 

 tions during the year was $1,660.21. The life- 

 membership fund now amounts to $3,901.83. The 

 library shows the normal increase, the total 

 number of books on the shelves being now 3,508. 



During the past sixteen years the society has 

 expended for printing the Bulletin, Transactions 

 and other publications $42,473.57. The total 

 returns from publications have been in the same 

 period $15,375.20. The stock of publications on 

 hand may be fairly valued at about $10,000. The 

 university subventions have amounted to $8,100. 

 Editorial and administrative expenses during the 

 sixteen years have been $11,739.14. The society 

 is about to undertake the publication of the 

 Princeton Colloquium Lectures and the republica- 

 tion of Klein's Evanston Lectures. 



The following papers were read at the annual 

 meeting: 



S. Chapman : " A note on the theory of sum- 

 mable integrals." 



H. H. Mitchell : " Concerning a rotation group 

 in six-space." 



Virgil Snyder: "An application of a (1-2) 

 quaternary correspondence." 



A. S. Hawkesworth: "Three new dimension 

 theorems." 



W. R. Longley: " Singular points on the dis- 

 criminant locus of an ordinary differential equa- 

 tion." 



R. G. D. Richardson : " Theorems of oscillation 

 for two self-adjoint linear differential equations 

 of the second order with two parameters." 



Maxime Bocher : " A simple proof of a funda- 



