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studied. It was found that both retention and 



absorption were normal or above normal. The 



digestive system does not seem to be at all deranged 



in this fatal disease. 



T. L. Hakkey: Further Studies of Edema. 



Olive G. Patterson: A Study of the Influence of 

 External Hemorrhages on the Partition of Uri- 

 nary Nitrogen. 



Victor E. Levinb: Biochemical Studies of Sele- 

 nium. 



Benjamin Horowitz and W. J. Gies: Pigments 

 Produced from Thymol by Ammonium Hydrox- 

 ide. 



Louis Berman and W. J. Gies: A Differential 

 Stain for Mucine and Mucoids. 



Max Kahn and W. J, Gies: The Origin and Sig- 

 nificance of Salivary Sulfocyanate. 



A. P. LoTHROP and W, J. Gies: Biochemical 

 Studies of Dental Caries. 



W. J. Gies : Further Studies of the Permeability 

 of Lipin-Collodion Membranes. 



W. D. Bancroft: Light and Health. 

 {To be concluded.) 



Charles L. Parsons, 



Secretary 



SOCIETIES AND ACADEMIES 



THE AMERICAN MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY 



The one hundred and sixty-fifth regular meet- 

 ing of the society was held at Columbia Univer- 

 sity on Saturday, October 25, extending through 

 the usual morning and afternoon sessions. 

 Thirty-three members were in attendance. Presi- 

 dent E. B. Van Vleek occupied the chair, being 

 relieved by Professor H. S. White. The following 

 new members were elected: R. W. Burgess, Cornell 

 University; Tomlinson Port, University of Michi- 

 gan; Cora B. Hennel, Indiana University; Arthur 

 Korn, Charlottenburg, Germany; J. H. Kindle. 

 University of Cincinnati; M. A. Linton, Provident 

 Life and Trust Company, Philadelphia; John Mc 

 Donnell, Geodetic Survey of Canada; J. Q. Mc 

 Natt, Colorado Fuel and Iron Company; T. E, 

 Mason, Indiana University; B. E. Mitchell, Co 

 lumbia University; George Paaswell, New York 

 City; D. k. Smith, Georgia School of Technology; 

 Panaiotis Zervos, University of Athens. Twelve 

 applications for membership were received. 



The meetings of the Chicago Section having 

 been for some years of equal importance with the 

 meetings held in New York and technically de- 

 scribed as meetings of the society, it has been de- 

 cided to obliterate this outgrown distinction by 

 making the Chicago meetings also regular meet- 



ings of the society, so far as the presentation of 

 scientific papers is concerned. The society will 

 hereafter enjoy a possibly unique distinction, in 

 that it will hold practically simultaneous meetings 

 in two cities. 



Following closely on the volume of the Prince- 

 ton Colloquium Lectures, the society will shortly 

 publish the Madison Colloquium Lectures of Pro- 

 fessors L. E. Dickson and W. F. Osgood. This 

 will be Volume IV. of the series of Colloquium vol- 

 umes, its predecessors being the Boston, New 

 Haven and Princeton Lectures. 



It was decided to hold the summer meeting of 

 1914 at Brown University, in acceptance of the 

 invitation by that university to participate in the 

 celebration of its one hundred and fiftieth anni- 

 versary. 



The following papers were read at the October 

 meeting: 



G. M. Green: "Projective differential geometry 

 of one-parameter families of space curves, and 

 conjugate nets on a curved surface." 



G. M. Green : ' ' One-parameter families of 

 curves in the plane. ' ' 



Edward Kasner: "The classification of analytic 

 curves in conf ormal geometry. ' ' 



G. H. Graves : ' ' Systems of algebraic curves of 

 least order for genera 3 and 4. ' ' 



A. A. Bennett: " Quadri-quadric transforma- 

 tions. ' ' 



A. A. Bennett: "A set of postulates for a gen- 

 eral field admitting addition, multiplication, and 

 an operation of the third grade. ' ' 



T. H. Gronwall: "On analytic functions of 

 several variables. ' ' 



H. Galajikian: "Concerning the continuity and 

 derivatives of the solution of a certain non-linear 

 integral equation." 



G. M. Green: "On the limit of the ratio of are 

 to chord at a point of a real curve." 



W. H. Eoever : ' ' Geometric derivation of a 

 formula for the southerly deviation of falling 

 bodies." 



The San Francisco Section held a meeting also 

 on October 25. The Southwestern Section wiU 

 meet at the University of Missouri on November 

 29. The society will meet in Chicago on Decem- 

 ber 26-27, and will hold its annual meeting in 

 New York on December 30-31. At the latter 

 meeting Professor H. B. Pine will deliver his 

 presidential address on "An unpublished theorem 

 of Kronecker respecting numerical equations. ' ' 

 F. N. Cole, 



