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LONDON Mathematical Society, November 11.—Mr. J. W. L. Glaisher, F.R.S., President, in the chair.—Mr. F. S. McAulay, St. Paul's School, was elected a Member.—The following gentlemen were elected to form the Council for the ensuing session:—President: Sir J. Cockle, F. R.S.; Vice-Presidents: J. W. L. Glaisher, F.R.S., Prof. Harry Hart, and the Right Hon. Lord Rayleigh, Sec.R.S.; Treasurer: A. B. Kempe, F.R.S.; Hon. Secretaries: Messrs. M. Jenkins and R. Tucker; other Members: Prof. Cayley, F.R.S.; E. B. Elliott, Prof. Green-hill, J. Hammond, Prof. M. J. M. Hill, C. Leudersdorf, Capt. Macmahon, R.A., S. Roberts, F.R.S., and J. J. Walker, F.R.S.—The retiring President, J. W. L. Glaisher, F.R.S., delivered an address, which treated of the Mathematical Tripos Examinations at Cambridge, and of the bearings of recent changes in the same upon the advancement of mathematics.—The following communications were made:—Certain operators in connection with symmetric functions, by R. Lachlan.—The transformation of a certain quartic elliptic element, by R. Russell. —Discussion of a multilinear operator, with applications to the theories of invariants and reciprocants, by Capt. Macmahon—The theory of screws in elliptic space (fourth note), by A. Buchheim.—The rectification of certain curves, by R. A. Roberts.—Rectification of a sphero-conic, by H. F. Burstall.—Third paper on reciprocants, by L. J. Rogers.—The “sine-triple-angle” circle, by R. Tucker.
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Societies and Academies . Nature 35, 70–72 (1886). https://doi.org/10.1038/035070a0
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