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Professor J. H. Gore was re-elected Chairman and Mr. G. E. 
Curtis Secretary. 
Mr. C. H. Kummell made a communication on A New, Simple, 
and Symmetrical Solution of the Quartic. 
64th Meeting. April 1, 1891. 
The Chairman, Mr. Gore, presided. 
Present, six members. 
Mr. Artemas Martin made a communication entitled The 
Sum of Two Biquadrate Numbers Cannot be a Biquadrate 
Number. 
Mr. C. H. Kummell completed his communication, begun at 
the preceding meeting, on A New Solution of the Quartic. 
Published in full in the Mathematical Magazine, 4to, Wash¬ 
ington, D. C., vol. ii, 1890, pp. 49-55. 
Mr. Martin pointed out that of all known solutions of the 
quartic Mr. Kummell’s is the only one which does not employ 
more than one auxiliary unknown quantity. 
78—Bull. Phil. Soc., Wash., Vol. 11. 
