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LONDON Mathematical Society, November 13.—Mr. C. W. Merrifield, F.R. S., president, in the chair.—The treasurer's and secretaries' reports were read.—The new council was elected, the only changes in which were the substitution of Messrs. Leudesdorf and Lloyd Tanner, in the place of Dr. Spottis-woode, P.R.S., and Prof. H. J. S. Smith, F.R.S., the retiring Members.—The Chairman briefly, but in feeling terms, alluded to the losses the Society had recently sustained by the deaths of such accomplished mathematicians as Prof. Clifford, Sir J. G. Shaw Lefevre, and Prof. J. Clerk Maxwell. —The following communications were made to the Society:— (i) On the binomial equation x p - I = o, trisection and quarti-sectjon, Prof. Cayley, F.R.S.—(2) On cubic determinants and other determinants of higher class, and on determinants of alternate numbers, Mr. R. F. Scott.—(3) On a problem of Fibonacci's, Mr, S. Roberts, F.R.S.—(4) Notes on a class of definite integrals, Mr. T. R. Terry, (i) was principally concerned with the presentation in a simplified form of results given in Reuschle's “Tafeln complexer Primzahlen welche aus Wurzeln der Einheit gebildet sind” (4to, Berlin, 1875), and in Jacobi's, “Canon Arithmeticus” (4to, Berlin, 1839). (2) was on a branch of determinants which has received but little attention in this country. Mr. Lloyd Tanner communicated a paper on the subject to the Society at its June meeting in the present year. Amongst Continental papers are memoirs by Armenante, Padova, and Garbieri (in the Giornale di Matematiche), Dahlander and A. de Gasparis. (3) was an account and extension of work done in the Diophantine Analysis by Fibonacci, and recently by Genocchi.
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Societies and Academies . Nature 21, 75–76 (1879). https://doi.org/10.1038/021075a0
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