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Our Illustrations.

In this issue we reproduce pictures of Professor D. K. Picken, M. A., recently to the chair of mathematics in Victoria College, the delegates to the Easter Tournament Committee, the representatives of the College at the Tournament and the first eleven of the Cricket Club. There are also photographs of R. Twyneham, of Canterbury College, winner of the Mile Walk, a general group of University folk taken on the Kaituna Tennis Courts, and the Tennis Shield Team taken at Day's Bay.

Professor D. K. Picken was born in 1879, and educated in Glasgow at Allan Glen's school and the University of Glasgow. The position of First Prizeman in Lord Kelvn's class for Higher Applied Mathematics was one of the many distinctions won by him as an under-graduate. Graduating as M. A. with first-class Honours, in October 1899, Professor Picken was awarded the Metcalfe Fellowship, which enabled him to continue his mathematical studies at the University of Cambridge. There he was elected to a Foundation Mathematical Scholarship (open to Honours Graduates of the four Scottish Universities) in 1900. In the Mathematical Tripos, Part 1, of 1902, he was Sixth Wrangler, but while preparing for part II, he was offered the post of Chief Assistant to the Professor of Mathematics at Glasgow University. A brilliant University career was terminated by his decision to accept the position.

While lecturing in Glasgow, Professor Picken was an Editor of the "Proceedings of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society" for two sessions, and he has lately been elected Vice-President of the same society; he is also a member of the London Mathematical Society. He has been a regular contributor to the Edinburgh Society's "Proceedings," and to "The Mathematical Gazette."

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