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LONDON Mathematical Society, November 9.—Mr. S. Roberts, F.R.S., president, in the chair.—After the reading of the Treasurer's and Secretaries' reports, the Chairman briefly touched upon the loss the Society bad sustained during the recess, by the death of Prof. W. Stanley Jevous, F.R.S.—After the ballot for the Council of the ensuing session had been taken, Prof. Henrici, F.R.S., the newly elected president, took the chair, and called upon Mr. Roberts to read his address, which was entitled, “Remarks on Mathematical Terminology and the Philosophical Bearing of Recent Mathematical Speculations concerning the Realities of Space.”—Mr. W. M. Hicks was admitted into the Society.—The following communications were made:—On in and circumscribed polybedrs, Prof. Forsyth.—Note on quartic curves in space, Dr. Spottiswoode, P.R.S.—Note on the derivation of elliptic function formulæ from confocal conies, Mr. J. Griffiths.—On the explicit integration of certain differential resolvents, Sir J. Cockle, F.R.S.—On compound determinants, Mr. R. F. Scott.—On unicursal twisted quartics, Mr. R. A. Roberts.
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SOCIETIES AND ACADEMIES . Nature 27, 71–72 (1882). https://doi.org/10.1038/027071c0
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