Meeting of 12 June 1896

Location: Edinburgh Institution, Edinburgh

Chair: Peddie, William

Papers:
Gibson, George Alexander: "Review (with special reference to the Rise of the Infinitesimal Calculus and the Newton-Leibnitz controversy) of Cantor's Vorlesungen über Geschichte der Mathematik, Dritter Band"
Peddie, William: "On the foundations of Dynamics", [Title]


John Sturgeon Mackay told the society of a communication he had received regarding a possible mathematical congress on the continent. The society agreed to give its official support.

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