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mental theorem in the theory of integral equa- 

 tions." 



J. L. Coolidge : " The metrical aspect of the 

 line-sphere transformation." 



E. J. Miles: "The absolute minimum of a defi- 

 nite integral in a special field." 



J. C. Fields : " A method of proving certain 

 theorems relating to rational functions which are 

 adjoint to the fundamental algebraic equation for 

 a given value of the independent variable." 



F. F. Decker : " On the order of a restricted 

 system of equations." 



Paul Saurel: "On the classification of crystals." 



A. B. Coble : " An application of Moore's cross 

 ratio group to the solution of the sextic equa- 

 tion." 



A. B. Coble : " The cubic surface and plane six- 

 point." 



C. L. E. Moore: "Conjugate directions on a 

 hypersurface in St and some allied curves." 



W. H. Bates : " An application of symbolic 

 methods to the treatment of mean curvature in 

 hyperspace." 



H. B. Phillips: "The Galois theory of sets of 

 multipartite variables." 



J. K. Conner : " Correspondences associated 

 with the rational plane quintic curve." 



L. P. Eisenhart: "Conjugate systems and en- 

 velopes of spheres." 



Joseph Lipke: "Natural families of curves in 

 a general curved space of n dimensions." 



0. E. Glenn: "On the discriminants of ternary 

 forms." 



Professor Bates's paper will appear in full in 

 the January Transactions. Abstracts of the other 

 papers will be included in the secretary's report 

 in the March number of the Bulletin. 



The Chicago Section of the society held its 

 twenty-eighth regular meeting at the University 

 of Chicago, December 28-30. The next meeting 

 of the society will be held at Columbia Univer- 

 sity on Saturday, February 25. 



F. N. Cole, 

 Secretary 



THE SOUTHERN SOCIETY FOR PHILOSOPHY 

 AND PSYCHOLOGY 

 The sixth annual meeting of the Southern 

 Society for Philosophy and Psychology was held 

 at Chattanooga, Tenn., December 27 and 28, 1910. 

 The meetings were presided over by Professor 

 Edward Franklin Buchner, who delivered the 

 presidential address on the topic: "Learning and 

 Forgetting." 



The following papers and reports were read: 



Thomas P. Bailey, New York Bureau of Mu- 

 nicipal Research, " Some supposed Racial Tend- 

 encies of the Amei'iean Negro: A Plea for a 

 Psychological Study of the Race Problem." 



Jasper C. Barnes, Maryville College, " The 

 Pressure Curve in Voluntary Control." 



Knight Dimlap, Johns Hopkins University, " A 

 Study in Rhythm Perception." 



David Spence Hill, Peabody College for Teach- 

 ers, (a) "Some Needs for Child Welfare in the 

 South," ( 6 ) " Class and Practise Experiments," 

 (c) "A Comparative Study of Children's Ideals." 



A. J. McKelway, secretary, National Child 

 Labor Committee for the Southern States, " Child 

 Labor in its Relation to Education." 



R. M. Ogden, University of Tennessee, (a) 

 " The Order of the Days of the Week and the 

 Pythagorean Philosophy," ( 5 ) " Elnowing and 

 Expressing." 



Jno. Pickett Turner, Vanderbilt University, 

 " Locke's Place in the History of Thought." 



Tom A. Williams, Washington, D. C, {a) "The 

 Modem Interpretation of Dreams and Visions, 

 Sleeping and Waking," ( 6 ) " Intellectual Pre- 

 cocity: The R5le of the Inclinations and Affectiv- 

 ity: A Comparison of the Principles and Methods 

 employed for educating John Stuart Mill and 

 Boris Sidis's Son." 



The officers elected for the year 1911 are: 



President — Dr. Shepherd Ivory Franz, Govern- 

 ment Hospital for the Insane; Vice-president — 

 Professor A. Caswell Ellis, University of Texas. 



Secretary-treasurer — Professor R. M. Ogden, 

 University of Tennessee. 



Vacancies in the council were filled to consti- 

 tute that body as follows: for a three-year term, 

 Professors E. F. Buchner, Johns Hopkins Uni- 

 versity, and W. B. Smith, Tulane University; 

 for a two-year term, Professor Bruce R. Payne, 

 University of Virginia, and President H. J. 

 Pearce, Breneau College; for a one-year term. 

 Professors David Spence Hill, Peabody College 

 for Teachers, and W. C. Ruediger, George Wash- 

 ington University. 



It was voted to hold the next meeting of the 

 society at Washington, D. C, in affiliation with 

 the American Association for the Advancement of 

 Science, provided the American Psychological and 

 Philosophical Associations meet at the same place 

 and time. 



R. M. Ogden, 



Secretary 



