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SCIENCE. 



[N. S. Vol. XVII. No. 429. 



SOCIETIES AND ACADEMIES. 



AMERICAN MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY. 



A EEGULAE meeting of the American Mathe- 

 matical Society was held at Columbia Univer- 

 sity on Saturday, February 28, 1903, extend- 

 ing through the usual morning and afternoon 

 sessions. Thirty-one members were in at- 

 tendance; fourteen papers were presented. 

 The president of the society. Professor 

 Thomas S. Fiske, occupied the chair, being 

 relieved at the afternoon session by Vice- 

 President Professor W. F. Osgood. The 

 council announced the election of the follow- 

 ing persons to membership in the society: 

 Professor F. H. Bailey, Massachusetts Insti- 

 tute of Technology; Mr. A. T. Bell, High 

 School, Eeynolds, 111.; Professor F. P. Brack- 

 ett, Pomona College, Claremont, Cal. ; Mr. 

 W. E. Breckinridge, Morris High School, 

 New York, N. T. ; Professor Ellen L. Burrell, 

 Wellesley College; Miss E. B. Cowley, Vassar 

 College; Professor E. E. De Cou, University 

 of Oregon; Mr. F. D. Frazer, University of 

 Oregon; Professor J. Willard Gibbs, Tale 

 University; Dr. C. N. Haskins, Massachusetts 

 Institute of Technology; Mr. A. C. Lunn, 

 University of Chicago; Mr. C. L. E. Moore, 

 Cornell University; Mr. F. 6. Eeynolds, Col- 

 lege of the City of New York; Mr. C. E. 

 Stromquist, Yale University; Professor W. E. 

 Taylor, Syracuse University; Mr. Charles Van 

 Orstrand, U. S. Geological Survey. Five ap- 

 plications for admission to the society were 

 received. 



Professor E. W. Brown was reelected a 

 member of the editorial board of the Trans- 

 actions for a term of three years. The office 

 of assistant secretary of the society, vacated 

 by the appointment of Dr. Edward Kasner 

 to the editorial staff of the Transactions, was 

 abolished. 



It was decided to hold the summer meet- 

 ing of the society at Massachusetts Institute 

 of Technology during the week beginning 

 August 31. A colloquium will this year be 

 held in connection with the summer meeting. 

 Courses of three to six lectures will be given 

 as follows: By Professor E. B. Van Vleck, 

 ' Selected topics in the theory of continued 

 fractions and divergent series ' ; by Professor 



F. S. Woods, ' The connectivity of non-euclid- 

 ean space ' ; by Professor H. S. White, sub- 

 ject to be announced. 



The following papers were read at the Feb- 

 ruary meeting: 



L. P. EiSENHART : ' Congruences of conies.' 



Emory McClintock : ' The logarithm as a 

 direct function.' 



H. P. Manning : ' Non-euclidean geometry of 

 nets of circles.' 



0. E. Stkomquist : ' A generalization of the 

 length integral.' 



Edward Kasnee: 'Three notes on projective 

 geometry.' 



W. B. PoRD : ' A theorem concerning the func- 

 tions of two or more complex variables.' 



W. F. Osgood : ' The integral as the limit of a 

 sum, and a theorem of Duhamel.' 



E. E. Hedrick : ' The integral curves of a 

 partial differential equation.' 



E. B. Van Vleck: ' On an extension of the 1894 

 memoir of Stieltjes.' 



A. S. Gale : ' On a generalization of a set of 

 associated minimum surfaces.' 



G. A. Miller : ' A fundamental theorem with 

 respect to transitive substitution groups.' 



E. W. Brown : ' On the derivatives of the lunar 

 coordinates with respect to the elements.' 



Charlotte A. Scott : ' On the fundamental 

 theorem of projective geometry.' 



Alfred Loewy : ' Ueber die Reducibilitilt der 

 ■ reelen Gruppen linearer homogener Substitu- 

 tionen.' 



After the meeting many of the members 

 present dined and passed the evening to- 

 gether. 



The next meeting of the society will be 

 held in New York on April 25. The Chicago 

 Section will meet at Northwestern Univer- 

 sity, Evanston, 111., on April 11. The San 

 Francisco Section will hold a meeting early 

 in May. F. N. Cole, 



Secretary. 



THE SOCIETY FOR EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY AND 

 MEDICINE. 



Several New York biologists met at the 

 home of Professor Graham Lusk, on January 

 19, 1903, to consider the advisability of or- 

 ganizing a society for experimental biology 

 and medicine. This project was originally 

 suggested by Dr. S. J. Meltzer. Those pres- 

 ent at this meeting were unanimously in favor 



