October 3, 1913] 



SCIENCE 



489 



Princeton University; Professor W. O. Beal, 

 Illinois College; Dr. C. A. Fischer, Columbia 

 University; Professor A. E. Landry, Catholic 

 University of America; Lieutenant Salih 

 Mourad, Ottoman navy; Miss E. A. Weeks, 

 Mount Holyoke College. Thirteen new appli- 

 cations for membership were received. 



It was decided to hold the summer meeting 

 of 1915 at San Francisco in connection with 

 the Panama Exposition. The secretary re- 

 ported that a separate office for the society had 

 been provided by Columbia University and 

 that the services of a clerk had been engaged 

 for carrying on the considerable routine work 

 of the secretary, treasurer, librarian, commit- 

 tee of publication and shipping office. It was 

 decided to issue the Eegister of the society 

 hereafter at intervals of two or three years; 

 in the intervening years only a mere list of 

 officers and members will be published. Pro- 

 fessor L. E. Dickson was appointed editor-in- 

 chief of the Transactions, the other members 

 of the editorial committee being at present 

 Professors H. S. White and D. E. Curtiss. 

 The society has recently published the Prince- 

 ton Colloquium Lectures delivered at the 

 sixth colloquium in 1909 by Professor G. A. 

 Bliss on " Fundamental existence theorems " 

 and Professor Edward Kasner on " Differen- 

 tial-geometric aspects of dynamics." 



The arrangements made by the local com- 

 mittee for the comfort and entertainment of 

 the members throughout the week were per- 

 fect. No place in the middle west could be 

 more ideal for such a series of meetings than 

 Madison. The spacious lecture halls of the 

 university, the beautiful campus occupying an 

 elevated position overlooking the capitol build- 

 ing and the adjacent lakes, Mendota and 

 Monona, the commodious University Club 

 used as headquarters, and the hospitality of 

 President Van Vleck and other members of 

 the faculty who opened their homes fbr the 

 entertainment of the members— these and 

 many other items contributed to the success 

 of the farthest west summer meeting and only 

 western colloquium. 



On Monday evening President Van Vleck 

 entertained at dinner the members of the 



council and the colloquium lecturers. On 

 Wednesday afternoon the committee provided 

 a two-hours' special excursion on Lake Men- 

 dota, ending at the Golf Club House in time 

 for the dinner, at which fifty-five persons sat 

 down. President Van Vleck acted as toast- 

 master and informal speeches were made by 

 Professors Osgood, Bolza, Moore, Blichfeldt, 

 Dickson and Dr. Jackson. A telegram was 

 sent to the secretary, expressing appreciation 

 of his services to the society and great regret 

 at his enforced absence. At the close of the 

 dinner Professor Ziwet voiced the unanimous 

 sentiment in expressing thanks to the univer- 

 sity and the committee on arrangements for 

 their generous hospitality. The dinner was 

 followed by a moonlight ride on the lake 

 back to the University Club. On Thursday 

 the members were conducted by Professor 

 Skinner about the campus and buildings of the 

 university; and on Friday an automobile ride 

 was provided by the mathematical faculty and 

 their friends, giving the members a fine oppor- 

 tunity to see the immediate surroundings of 

 Madison. This ended in a most enjoyable 

 buffet dinner at the home of President Van 

 Vleck. 



The following papers were read at the four 

 sessions of the summer meeting: 



E. B. Lytle: "Note on iterable fields of in- 

 tegration. ' ' 



W. H. Bussey: "The tactical problem of 

 Steiner. " 



Josephine E. Burns: "The abstract definitions 

 of the groups of degree eight." 



William Marshall: "The functions of the para- 

 bolic cylinder. ' ' 



L. C. Karpinski: "The algorism of John Kill- 

 ingworth. ' ' 



B. D. Carmiehael: "On series of iterated linear 

 fractional functions. ' ' 



E. D. Carmiehael: "Some theorems on the con- 

 vergence of series." 



T. E. Mason: "The character of the solutions 

 of certain functional equations." 



E. B. Van Vleck and F. T. H'Doubler: "On 

 certain functional equations. ' ' 



Oskar Bolza: "On the so-called 'abnormal' case 

 of Lagrange's problem in the calculus of varia- 

 tions. ' ' 



