PROFESSOR YOUNG AIDS ENDOWMENT CAMPAIGN

The campaign for an endowment fund of $100,000 for the American Mathematical Society will be in charge of a committee assisted in the East by Professor J.W. Young, chairman of the Department of Mathematics, according to a recent announcement. Professor Young has been a member of the council of the society since 1907. The committee is headed by Professor J. L. Coolidge of Harvard.

The endowment fund sought by the society is absolutely necessary, according to Professor Young, to provide in America for the continuation of research and publication in the field of mathematics. Credit for the rise of America since 1894 to a position in the mathematical world where her contributions to the science are comparable to those of Europe, are due, said Professor Young, almost entirely to the work of the American Mathematical Society, its publications, meetings and special funds.

The $100,000 to be raised as an endowment fund will make possible, the society hopes, the maintenance and extension of its two publications. The Bulletin, a monthly which presents a critical review of mathematical science and serves as a news organ for the society, and The Transactions, a quarterly devoted solely to new investigations in pure and applied mathematics.