The society is known to have existed in the late 1920s/early 1930s. It was re-founded in Michaelmas 1945 (at the instigation of the then president of the Archimedeans, Cambridge University Mathematical Society), holding its first meeting on 24 January 1946. The society was one of a number of mathematical societies each of which drew its membership from a subset of colleges, in this case Christ's, Emmanuel, Gonville and Caius, Jesus and Sidney Sussex Colleges, with some associates from Girton. At various dates membership was extended to those from Downing, Trinity Hall, Homerton, Hughes Hall and Cambridge College of Arts and Technology. It ran a guest speaker programme with lectures on both pure and applied mathematics, and sometimes on related disciplines particularly chemistry, other physical and earth sciences, and logical reasoning. Some social meetings such garden parties and cricket matches were held. The society's relationship with the other mathematical societies, particularly the university wide Archimedeans was close. The post of ''Archimedean's Representative'' was created on the committee; the holder being charged to attend the Archimedeans's meetings. The mathematicians Bertha Jeffreys and Mary Lucy Cartwright were elected honorary members in 1965. The society appears to have become defunct in the 1990s. Some information about the society's history is to be found on the website of the Archimedeans, Cambridge University Mathematical Society: http://www.archim.org.uk/.