Genesis
In 1895, Professor P. Molenbroek of The Hague, Holland, and Shinkichi Kimura studying at Yale put out a call for scholars to form the society in widely circulated journals: Nature, Science, and the Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society (see references). Giuseppe Peano also announced the society formation in his Rivista di Matematica. Further discussions were held at the 1897 meeting of the British Association at Toronto. When organized in 1899, Peter Guthrie Tait was chosen as president, but he declined for reasons of poor health. Robert Stawell Ball then served for a year. Charles Jasper Joly, who had just completed editing the second edition of William Rowan Hamilton's Elements of Quaternions, then became president.
A system of national secretaries was announced in the AMS Bulletin in 1899: Alexander MacAulay for Australasia, Paul Genty for France, Victor Schlegel for Germany, Joly for Great Britain and Ireland, Giuseppe Peano for Italy, Kimura for Japan, Aleksandr Kotelnikov for Russia, F. Kraft for Switzerland, and A.S. Hathaway for the USA.
Victor Schlegel reported on the new institution in the Monatshefte für Mathematik.
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