Meeting of 11 May 1883

Location: Edinburgh, the Mathematical Class Room, Edinburgh University

Chair: Mackay, John Sturgeon

Papers:
Munn, David: "The Nine-Point Circle", [Title]
Knott, Cargill Gilston: "An Account of Newton's 'Optics' ", [Title]

Elected:
Prentice, Charles
Wight, Laurence H

Sir William Thomson was elected an Honorary Member
After David Munn's paper, John Sturgeon Mackay drew attention to a theorem in geometry, regarding the orthocenter and inscribed center of a triangle: "for which an easy elementary demonstration was wanted by the Association for the Improvement of Geometrical Teaching."
29 members were present.

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