The Inaugural Meeting of the above Society was held at Taunton School, Southampton, on Friday, October 22nd, by kind invitation of the Headmaster, Mr. S. J. Gubb, when seventeen members were present.

A Meeting of the North Wales branch was held on November 20th at the Girls’ County School, Bangor. The proposed rules for local branches were read, and their consideration, as far as this branch is concerned, was postponed until after the general meeting of the Association.

That some advantages have been derived from the freedom now enjoyed in the teaching of Geometry will be denied by no one; but there are disadvantages equally obvious. The, confusion both of order and method, the neglect of the theoretical and deductive work as compared with the practical and experimental, and the failure to grasp the value of Euclid’s work as an educational discipline may be mentioned. Perhaps it is not too late to express the hope that one of our great mathematicians—or a representative group chosen from among them—may yet produce a Textbook of Geometry which will be to English-speaking people what Legendre’s Eléments has been, during more than 100 years, to so large a part of the Continent of Europe.