ARCHIBALD, RAYMOND CLARE (1875— ) , Amer ican mathematician, was born in Colchester (N.S.), Canada, on Oct. 7, 1875. He graduated at the University of Mt. Allison col lege, New Brunswick, in 1894, and from Harvard university in 1896. Following two years' graduate work at Harvard, he studied at the University of Berlin in 1898-99 and at the University of Strasbourg in from the latter receiving the degree of doctor of philosophy. Returning to Canada, he taught mathe matics in Mt. Allison Ladies' college, Sackville, N.B., in 1900–o7 and in Acadia university, Wolfville, N.S., in 1907-08. He then entered the faculty of Brown university, Providence, R.I., where he served successively as instructor, assistant professor, and asso ciate professor in mathematics until 1923, when he was made professor. In 1918 he became a member of the council of the Mathematical Society of America, of which in 1921 he was made librarian. He has contributed extensively to mathematical jour nals and edited important scientific publications.
Among his published writings are: The Cardioid and Some of Its Related Curves (1900) ; Bibliography of Life and Works of Simon Newcomb (1905, 1924) ; Carlyle's First Love, Margaret Gordon, Lady Bannerman (1910) ; Mathematical Instruction in France (191o) ; Euclid's Book on Divisions of Figures with a Restoration (1915) ; The Training of Teachers of Mathematics (1918) ; and Benjamin Peirce, 18o9-188o (1925)•