Meeting of 9 November 1888

Location: Edinburgh Institution, Edinburgh

Chair: Macdonald, William James

Papers:
Tait, Peter Guthrie: "On the relations between systems of curves which, together, cut their plane into squares"
Steggall, John Edward Aloysius: "The value of cos 2π/17 expressed in quadratic radicals"
Gibson, George Alexander: "A short notice of the additions to the mathematical theory of heat since the transmission of Fourier's memoir of 1811 to the French Academy "

Elected:
Lowe, D J,
Mitchell, Alexander Crichton
Mukhopâdhyây, Asutosh
Reid, W A

Robert McNair Ferguson exhibited to the meeting a diagram drawn by Mr Morham, city architect, showing by means of small squares, one million units.

Office-bearers:
President: Gibson, George Alexander
Vice-president: Fraser, Alexander Yule
Secretary: Alison, John
Treasurer: Wilson, John
Committee:
Macdonald, William James
Elliott, Archibald C
Fraser, Norman
Morrison, John Tod
Editors of Proceedings:
Allardice, Robert Edgar
Peddie, William

The financial statement for the previous session showed a deficit of £2/3/9.

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