Meeting of 13 December 1901

Location: Edinburgh Institution, Edinburgh

Chair: Third, John Alexander

Papers:
Muirhead, Robert Franklin: "Note on the theory of the rolling of one rigid surface on another"
Crawford, Lawrence: "A proof of Rodrigues' theorem and some expansions derived from it"
Blichfeldt, Hans Frederik: "Demonstrations of a pair of theorems in geometry"
Mackay, John Sturgeon: "History of a theorem in elementary geometry" {keywords: triangle, isosceles}

Elected:
Edward, James M
Herbert, Edward William

Dr Mackay read a letter from the son of the late Peter Guthrie Tait. Mr Tait and his family were giving the society a number of volumes of mathematical works and one of the late professor's bookcases. These presents were most gratefully accepted.

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