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Presents several letters to the editor. Nominations for the Presidential ticket; Views of William E. Russell upon tariff reform; Importance of gold standards in national credit.

The purely rational theory of Eckart continua (i.e. elastic bodies with a variable relaxed state) is applied to viscometric flows of polymeric melts. The main assumptions are thermodynamic non-interaction of inelastic behaviour and of non-elastic stress, as well as elastic isotropy. After establishing the time-dependent differential equations of viscometric flow, these equations are simplified to a set of algebraic equations describing steady-state flow. From this we deduce two general equations connecting the three elastic steady-state viscometric functions which do not depend upon the elastic behaviour. The law of rubber elasticity used in this paper is described in the Appendix.

Presents several letters to the editor about various articles published in the periodical "The Nation." Protection of rights of English and American authors; Transformation of surnames; Article of Robert R. Livingston entitled "Answer to Mr. Jefferson," on the subject of "The New Orleans Batture."