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The thirty-ninth annual meeting of the AMERICAN ECONOMIC ASSOCIATION

will be held in St. Louis, Missouri, December 28-31, with headquarters at Hotel Statler. There will be one section on the interest rate and its relation to prices and wages, one on the outlook of American agriculture, one on the problem of financial reconstruction in France, and one on motor transpor- tation in the United States. Joint sessions will be arranged with the American Political Science Association, the American Statistical Associ- ation, and the American Association for Labor Legislation. Professor I. Lippincott of Washington University is chairman of the committee on local arrangements, and Professor D. A. McCabe has been asked to serve as chair- man of the program committee.

The following names have been added to the membership of the AMERICAN

ECONOMIC ASSOCIATION since May 1:

Bacon, D. C., 10 Bellevue Avenue, Cambridge, Mass. Barker, C. W., University, North Dakota. Bearnson, J. B., 6026 Ingleside Avenue, Chicago, Ill. Bernays, E. L., 9 East 46th Street, New York City. Bittner, G. E., Apt. 33, 1627 Lamont St., N. W., Washington, D. C. Carpenter, W. M., 272 North Mountain Avenue, Upper Montclair, N. J. Clutton, F. H., c/o Butler Bros., Randolph and Canal Sts., Chicago, Ill. Cobh, J. C., 340 Adams Street, Milton, Mass. Corradini, R. E., 150 Fifth Avenue, New York City. Crowell, E. O., Hollins College, Hollins, Virginia. Ding, E. H. N., 667 West 36th Street, Los Angeles, Calif. Dinic, C. J., Route 2, Box 43, Petaluma, Calif. Earle, E. M., Columbia University, NewV York City. Elliott, G. A., 4 Blake Hall, University of Chicago, Chicago Ill. Escher, P. A., 95 Riverside Drive, New York Citv. Eskell, S., 276/9 River Street, Bagdad, Mesopotamia, Asia Minor. Gross, J. H., 912 Witherspoon Building, Philadelphia, Pa. Hedberg, C. V., 1239 Waveland Avenue, Chicago, Ill. Kinsman, D. O., American University, Washingt6h, D. C. Knox, F. A., Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada. Lee, S. P., 828 Central Avenue, Toledo, Ohio. Leigh, W. W., 1819 Hinman Avenue, Evanston, Ill. Marget, A. W., 56 Egmont Street, Brookline, Mass. Miller, C. B., Jr., 127 Bonnie Brae, Warren, Ohio. Murphy, H., 826 West 51st Street, Los Angeles, Calif. Omeltchenko, E. I., 15 Moore Street, New York City. Pyle, J. F., 3300 Grand Avenue, Milwaukee, Wis. Salvesen, H. K., New College, Oxford, England. Snader, C. M., Chester Heights, Pa. Stevens, W. M., 1826 A Street, S. E., Washington, D. C. Thomas, B. A., 1503 South Wilton Place, Los Angeles, Calif. Tucker, L. A., 210 National City Bank Building, Cleveland, Ohio. Ulmer, C. D., c/o Koppers Company, 1329 Peoples Gas Building, Chicago, Ill. White, E. M., Wheaton College, Norton, Mass. Wood, E. E., Cape May Court House, Cape May, N. J. Wright, H. G., 1502 Fischer Building, Chicago, Ill. Wu, W., 934 East 10th Street, Los Angeles, Calif.

Aided by a subvention from the Carnegie Corporation, the American Council of Learned Societies is undertaking a systematic survey of research in the United States in the humanistic and social sciences. The survey

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is under the direction of Frederic A. Ogg (1 133 Woodward Building, Washington), who is sending, out in behalf of the AMERICAN ECONOMIC AssoCIATION a questionnaire.

Professor Fred R. Fairchild has begun a field study of forest taxation in Minnesota, in connection with the national study oif forest taxation under the Clarke-AIcNary law. It is expected that this investigation will continue for a year or more.

Professor Ray B. Westerfield during the summer served as chief of the Section of Statistics of the Treasury Department at Washington.

The awards of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation for 1926-97 include the following in the field of economics: Dr. Alzada Com- stock, Mount Holyoke College, to make a study of the League of Nations' financial reconstruction work in Hungary; Dr. Herbert Feis, University of Cincinnati, to make a study of the French, British and German pre-war experience in foreign investment as a broad and varied historical basis for consideration of the probable significance and effects of the present flow of American capital into foreign lands.

This Foundation has also given notice that applications for fellowships in 1927 must be made in writing before November 15, 1926, addressed to, Henry Alien Mloe, Secretarv, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 2300 Pershing Square Building, New York City.

Dr. Harrv Jerome, aided by a staff of specialists, has been engaged in preparing a report for the National Bureau of Economic Research on Miqration and Business C!Icles.

The National Industrial Conference Board has discontinued the publication of its weekly, Industrial News Survey. It is expected that the Manu- facturers News, 231 South La Salle Street, Chicago, will continue this digest as one of its departments.

The College of Commerce and Journalism of Ohio State University has begun the publication of a monthly journal of business research under the directorship of Spurgeon Bell. The issue for May 15 (No. 4) contains an analysis of the French debt and the relation of European trade to American business. Other bulletins deal with current sales and business activity.

The Department of Commerce has prepared a list of its publications under date of May 1, 1926 (Washington, pp. 128).

The Library of Congress has continued its List of American Doctoral Dissertations Printed in 1924 (Washington, Library of Congress, pp. 173).

A meeting of the Stable Money Association was held in New York, June 7, 1926, to discuss the subject The Effect of Fluctuating Price Levels on Long Term Investments. Addresses were made by Dr. Edwin W. Kopf of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, Mr. A. Vere Shaw of Boston, and Mr. Lawrence Clhamberlain of New York.

At a hearing before the House Judiciary Committee, held April 2, 1926, representatives of the American Council of Learned Societies and the Social Science Research Council presented the need and the desirability of indexing

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federal and state laws. Among those who spoke were Professor Joseph P. Chamberlain of New York, Mr. Luther E. Hewitt of Philadelphia, Miss Adelaide R. Hasse, representing Dr. HI. G. Moulton of the Institute of Economics, Mr. W. F. Willoughbv of the Institute of Government Research, and Dr. Frederic A. Ogg of the University of Wisconsin.

A new Economic History Society has been founded in England, which will publish at intervals an Econom ic History Review. This will be under the editorship of Mr. E. Lipson and Mr. R. H. Tawney. Membership in the society and the annual subscription for the Review is lOs. 6d; and com- munications should be addressed to the treasurer, Mr. J. A. White, 43 Dora Road, S. W. 19, London.

Professor Clarence M. Jackson of the University of Minnesota has compiled in bibliographical series no. 3 of the research publications of the University of Minnesota, Research in Progress at the University of Minnesota, July, 1924.-July, 1925. Several pages, 193-200, are devoted to the research of the School of Business, including accounting and economics.

Dr. Walton H. Hamilton and Dr. Helen R. Wright, whose book on, The Case of Bituminous Coal appeared in 1925, are now preparing a volume to be entitled The Control of Bituminous Coal.

Appointments and Resignations

Mr. Lewis W. Adams of Cornell University has accepted an appoint- ment as instructor in political economy at Washington and Lee University.

Mr. Ralph S. Alexander has been promoted to the rank of assistant professor of marketing at Columbia University.

Mr. Henry S. Anderson has been promoted from instructor to assistant professor in the department of economics at Stanford University.

Mr. Don H. Baker has resigned as instructor in the department of economics at the University, of Arkansas.

Miss Elizabeth F. Baker has been promoted to the rank of assistant professor of economics at Columbia.

Mr. A. J. Barlow of the University of Virginia has been promoted from the rank of associate professor of commerce and business administration to that of full professor.

Professor Don C. Barrett of Haverford College is lecturing this term at Princeton University, giving the senior course in money and banking which is usually given by Professor Kemmerer.

Mr. Willard C. Beatty of Cornell University has been appointed assistant professor of economics and social science at Wesleyan University.

Mr. J. F. Bell has been appointed instructor in economics at the University of Illinois.

Dr. Abraham Berglund of the University of Virginia has been promoted from associate to full professor. At the request of the Institute of

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Economics in Washington, Dr. Berglund has been granted a year's leave of absence from the University to prepare for the Institute a report dealing with the tariff and certain phases of the iron and steel industry.

Dr. Edward Berman has been promoted from assistant to associate pro- fessor at the University of Illinois, where he will give courses in the field of labor.

Mr. W. L. Bishop has been appoiinted instructor in economics at the University of Illinois.

Professor Theodore H. Boggs, executive head of the department of economics at the University of British Columbia, is to be acting professor oif economics at Stanford University for the academic year 1926-27.

Dr. Jesse H. Bond of the University of North Dakota is at Princeton during the academic year 1926-27 as visiting professor.

Professor Charles Jesse Bullock of Harvard University served as acting professor of economics at Stanford University during the summer.

Professor Frank T. Carlton, who gave courses in labor during the year 1925-26 at the University of Illinois while on leave of absence from DePauw University, returned to the latter institution this fall.

Professor F. L. Carmichael of the School of Commerce, Accounts, and Finance at the University of Denver has been appointed associate director of the Bureau of Statistical Research. The Bureau recently received a contribution of $37,500 for expansion from the Laura Spellman Rockefeller Foundation.

Professor J. F. Carroll has been appointed dean of the School of Commerce and Finance at Drake University. He will be on leave of absence during the academic year 1926-27 to complete his doctor's degree at the Graduate School of Business Administration, Harvard University.

Mr. B. F. Catherwood has been appointed instructor in economics at the University of Illinois.

Mr. Denzel C. Cline has been appointed instructor in economics in the School of Business Administration at the University of Idaho.

Mr. Walter B. Cole of the University of Illinois is one of the new instructors in the department of economics at the University of Arkansas.

Dr. Harry T. Collings, professor of economics at the University of Pennsylvania, attended the Congress of Panama held in Panama City, June 18-25, as dele;gate representing the University of Pennsylvania and the American Academy of Political and Social Science. Later in the summer he visited Costa Rica and Honduras.

Mr. R. C. Compton of the University of California is instructor in economics at Yale.

Mr. Thomas P. Cooper, chief of the Bureau oif Agricultural Economics, United States Department of Agriculture, has resigned from the Bureau in

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order to resume his duties as dean of the College of Agriculture and director of the Experiment Station at the University of Kentucky. Mr. Cooper has had a leave of absence since September, 1925, grantedi at the request of Mr. Jardine, Secretary of Agriculture.

Mr. R. S. Cornish of the University of New Hampshire will teach accounting at Yale in the year 1926-27.

Professor William E. Cox will be acting dean of the College of Business Administration at the University of Washington during the year 1926-27 in the absence of Dean Howard T. Lewis.

Assistant Professor W. H. Crook of Boiwdoin College sailed for England the first part of the summer to make a study of the general strike situation.

Mr. Frederick F. Croxton of Ohio State University taught at the University of Chicago summer school.

Assistant Professor Morgan B. Cushing of Bowdoin College is spending his year of absence, 1926-27, in graduate study at Harvard University.

Mr. Kenneth Dameron, formerly of the University of California, is an instructor in economics at Princeton University.

Mr. Donald H. Davenport has been promoted to the rank of assistant professor of business statistics at Columbia University.

Mr. Horace B. Davis, who was acting assistant professor of economics at Cornell University during 1925-26, holds an Amherst Memorial Fellow- ship for the current year. He is making a comparative study of con- sumption habits and standards of living in the steel centers of Europe.

Mr. Prentice Northrup Dean is instructor in economics at Princeton University during the present academic year.

Dr. Edward T. Devine has been appointed dean of the reorganized Graduate School of the American University at Washington. He will also serve as professor of social economy.

Mr. Ralph L. Dewey is giving courses in transportation and statistics at Ohio State University.

Dr. Frank G. Dickinson has been advanced from the rank of instructor to that of associate professor in the department of economics at the University of Illinois.

Mr. Harwood B. Dolbeare, who has been teaching in the elementary course in economics at Cornell University is instructor in economics at Dartmouth College for the year 1926-27.

Professor Paul H. Douglas of the University of Chicago, spent approxi- mately a montlh during the winter in Haiti making a survey in behalf of the American Friends Service Committee of the American military occupation of the Republic of Haiti.

Mr. Acheson J. Duncan is an assistant in economics at Princeton University.

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Mr. Lynn R. Edminster of the staff of the Institute of Economics has been appointed, in exchange with Dr. Abraham Berglund of the University of Virginia, associate professor of commerce and business administration at that university for the year 1926-27.

Mr. Corwin D. Edwards of Cornell University is instructor in economic theory at the Washington Square Division of New York University.

Mr. Paul T. Ellsworth has accepted the position of assistant professor of economics at Reed College.

Mr. Robert W. Elsasser has become associate professor of accounting and statistics at Tulane University.

Assistant Professor George R. Esterly has resigned from the department of economics at the University of Arkansas.

Dr. Helen Everett of the Institute of Economics, who was recently married to Dr. Alexander Meiklejohn of the University of Wisconsin, is continuing her collaboration with Isador Lubin on a book entitled The British Coal Dilemma.

Professor Arthur S. Faubel of New York University has become general secretary of the American Protective Tariff League. He will continue teaching at the University.

Professor Frank A. Fetter of Princeton University conducted graduate courses during the summer session at the University of Chicago.

Dr. Frank Whitson Fetter went with the financial commission to Poland in the summer as secretary to Professor Kemmerer.

Professor James A. Field of the University of Chicago has been granted a leave of absence, and is spending the year abroad.

Mr. Edwin M. Fitch has finished his work at Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar, and has been appointed instructor in economics at New York University.

Dr. H. M. Fletcher has been advanced to the rank of associate professor in the department of economics at the University oif Illinois.

Mr. Robert S. Ford, who has been a teaching felloiw in economics at the University of California, has been appointed instructor in economics at Princeton University.

Dr. Paul Robert Fossum has accepted a po,sition on the faculty at Carlton College, Minnesota.

Mr. A. W. Fox has been made instructor in the department of trans- portation at the University of Illinois.

Professor E. S. Furniss has been elected chairman of the department of economics, sociology and government at Yale Univeirsity.

Mr. Frank R. Garfield of Cornell University is assistant professor of economics at the University of North Carolina.

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Mr. Meredith B. Givens, recently of the economics department at the University of Wisconsin, is now associated with Wlhiting Williams in a study of wage and labor conditions in several communities in which certain in- dustrial concerns are operating.

Professor Frank D. Graham of Princeton University accompanied Professor Kemmerer to Poland as general secretary to, the financial com- mission.

Mr. E. T. Grether, after a year's leave of absence at the University of Nebraska where he was assistant professor of advertising, returns to the University of California as assistant professor of economics.

Assistant Professor Lawrence H. Grinstead of Ohio State University taught at the University of Chicago summer school.

Dean J. E. Hagerty has resigned from the College of Commerce and Journalism at Ohio State University.

Mr. W. T. Harriman of Grinnell College will have charge of the marketing and accounting courses at the University of Rochester in the coming academic year.

Mr. George D. Haskell, formerly of Ohio State University, is now assistant professor of economics at the University of Iowa.

Mr. Joseph W. Hathcock of Cornell University has been appointed in- structor in economics at the University of Pittsburgh.

Professor L. E. Hoffman will be the acting dean of the School of Commerce and Finance, Drake University, during the absence of Dean J. F. Carroll.

Mr. Robert St. C. Holmes is an instructor in economics at Princeton University.

Mr. Donald C. Horton has become assistant in economics at Ohio State University.

Professor Grover G. Huebner of the University of Pennsylvania taught at the University of Chicago summer school.

Miss Emilie J. Hutchinson has been promoted to associate professor of economics at Columbia University.

Miss Kathleen Jackson has been appointed instructor in economics at Vassar College.

Mr. Clifford L James is assistant in economics at Ohio State University.

Mr. R. C. Jones of the economics department of Yale University has been awarded a Junior Sterling Fellowship at Yale for the year 1926-27.

Professor Albert S. Keister of the North Carolina College fo,r Women taught at the University of Chicago summer school.

Professor Edwin W. Kemmerer of Princeton University, at the request of the Polish government, went to Poland in the summer of 1926 at the head of the financial commission. Professor Kemmerer has been granted leave of

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absence from Princeton University for the academic year 1926-27, and will spend the time in South America in work of a financial nature for the governments of Ecuador and Bolivia.

Professor Milo Kimball has resigned his position in the department of economics, Boston University, and has accepted an appointment as associate professor in charge of banking and finance at Ohio State University.

Dr. E. A. Kincaid has been promoted to a full professorship of commerce and business administration at the University of Virginia.

Dr. C. E. Landon, who has been instructor at the University of Illinois, has accepted a similar position at Duke University.

Mr. J. S. Lawrence, who has been an instructor at Princeton University, has been appointed instructor in economics at New York University.

Dr. D. P. Locklin has been advanced from the rank of instructor to that of associate professor in the department of transportation at the University of Illinois.

Miss Margaret M. Lothrop, instructor in the department of economics at Stanford University, has been granted leave of absence for the year 1926- 27.

Professor Harley L. Lutz of the department of economics at Stanford University served during the summer on the financial commission to Poland, headed by Professor Kemmerer.

Professor Leverett S. Lyon of Robert Brookings Graduate School taught at the University of Chicago summer school.

Dr. W. A. McConagha, who; has been instructor at the University of Illinois, is now head of the department of economics at Lawrence College, Appleton, Wisconsin.

Dr. Robert J. McFall, who has been on leave of absence to work for a time in the Institute of Economics at Washington, has returned to the Massachusetts Agricultural College as research professor in agricultural economics.

Mr. C. WV. Moore, who has been assistant in economics at the University of Illinois, has accepted a position as instructor of economics at the University oif Nebraska.

Dr. Milton N. Nelson has resigned Iii position at Ohio State University to become head of the department of economics at Oregon Agricultural College, Corvallis, Oregon.

Associate Professor Mabel Newcomer has been promoted to the rank of full professor of economics at Vassar College.

Dr. M. Palyi of Berlin will give courses at the University of Chicago during the academic year 1926-27.

Dr. Audley E. Patton has resigned as assistant professor of economics at the University of Illinois to accept a positiot as assistant to the president of the Rapid Transit Company at Chicago.

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Mr. Robert D. Patton has been made assistant in economics at Ohio State University.

Assistant Professor Elmer Pendell goes from the University of Nevada to the department of economics at the University of Arkansas.

Professor C. Terence Pihlblad of Wittemberg College taught at the University of Missouri during the summer session.

Mr. Howard S. Piquet, formerly teaching fellow in economics at the University of California, is now an instructoir in economics at Princeton University.

Professor James Harvey Rogers of the University of Missouri taught during the early part of the summer at Battle Creek College, Michigan. During the latter part of the summer he delivered a series of lectures at the School of International Relations in Geneva.

Mr. R. H. Rowntree of the University of Washington goes to Ohio State University as assistant in economics.

Mr. G. B. Roorbach, professor of foreign trade at the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration, is spending a year's leave of absence in the Far East under the joint auspices of the Business School and the Bureau of International Research of Harvard University, studying inter- national trade and trade relations. Mr. Roorbach will spend most of the time in China, India, British Malaya and the Dutch East Indies.

Professor C. 0. Ruggles, head of the department of business organization at Ohio State University, has been appointed dean of the College of Com- merce and Journalism at that university, following the resignation of Dean J. E. Hagerty.

Dr. Henry Schultz has been granted a year's leave of absence from the staff of the United States Tariff Commission. He will lecture in the de- partment of political economy at the University of Chicago during the absence from that department of Professor James A. Field.

Dr. William J. Shultz, formerly of Hunter College, taught at the University of Chicago summer school.

Dr. Norman J. Silberling of the economics department of the University of California and Dr. John G. Schaffer have organized a consulting research service devoted to the analysis of business conditions on the Pacific Coast. The organization will issue reports dealing particularly with various phases of the business cycle from month to month in regional areas of the Coast.

Professor John E. Slater has resigned from the department of transpor- tation at the University of Illinois tos become assistant to the president of the American Brown-Boveri Electric Corporation, with his headquarters at Camden, New Jersey.

Mr. L. E. Smart, instructor in economics and statistics at Ohio State University, is on leave of absence for 1926-27, studying in the London School of Economics and Cambridge University.

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Dr. Walter E. Spahr has been made an associate professor at New York University.

Mr. Richard T. Stevens, assistant in geography at Ohio State University during the past year, has transferred to a similar position in the department of economics.

Dr. WV. H. S. Stevens will give a course in marketing at Jolhns Hopkins University during the academic year 1926-27.

Dr. W. H. Stouffer, who has been instructor in economics at the University of Virginia during the past year, has accepted a position as associate professor of business administration at the University of Georgia.

Mr. Joseph Lyell Temby is an instructor in economics at Princeton University.

Mr. F. W. Tuttle is an instructor in economics at the University of Illinois.

Dr. R. WV. Valentine has been promoted from assistant to associate professor of economics at the University of Illinois, where he will give courses in banking.

Dr. Francis Walker, chief economist of the Federal Trade Commission, and Dr. WV. H. S. Stevenis, assistant chief economist, testified before the Senate Comiimittee on Interstate Commerce at its hearing in June on the resolution of Senator Walsh to investigate certain alleged combinations.

Professor Ross G. Walker, head of the accounting department at the University of Iowa, has been appointed assistant professor of accounting at the Graduate School of Business Administration, Harvard University. He will take up his new duties at the beginning of the fall term.

Professor W. C. Weidler has become head of the department of business organization in the Coillege of Comimerce and Journalism, Ohio State University, succeeding Dr. C. 0. Ruggles, who is now dean of that college.

Mr. S. N. Wlhitney has been appointed instructor in economics at Yale University.

Mr. Virgil Willit, for the past twoi years instructor in economics at Princeton University, has accepted an instructorship in economics at Ohio State University and will give courses in money and banking.

Professor A. B. WVolfe of Ohio State University taught in the summer session at the University of Texas.

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