Dr. John G. Thompson has resigned his position as instructor at the University of Illinois and is devoting his time to the completion of a book on Rural Population.

Dr. Merle Thompson has been made professor of economics and psychology at Morningside College, Sioux City, Iowa.

Mr. F. M. Thrasher has been appointed instructor in sociology at Ohio State University.

Dr. E. T. Towne, of Carleton College, has been appointed professor of economics and political science and head of the department at the University of North Dakota.

Mr. John C. Traphagen, who has lectured on investments in the New York University School of Commerce, Accounts and Finance, has become treasurer of the Mercantile Trust Company of New York.

Mr. Donald S. Tucker, assistant professor in the department of economics at Wellesley College, is assisting also in the economics department of Tufts College.

Professor T. K. Urdahl, of the University of Wisconsin, is absent during the first semester assisting in the Federal Trade Commission at Washington.

Mr. J. Viner has resigned as instructor at the University of Chicago to accept a position with the Tariff Commission.

Dr. Gordon Watkins has received appointment in the department of economics at the University of Illinois.

Dr. H. B. Whaling, formerly associate professor in the University of North Dakota, is now associate professor of transportation in the School of Commerce at the State University of Iowa.

Mr. Otto F. Wilkinson has been appointed instructor in agricultural economics at the Massachusetts Agricultural College.

Professor F. E. Wolfe, formerly at Colby College, has been elected to the Homer E. White professorship of economics and head of the department of economics and sociology at Ohio Wesleyan University.

Dr. Leo Wolman has been granted leave of absence from Johns Hopkins University for service in the Statistical Division of the Council of National Defense.

Mr. Robert M. Woodbury has resigned his position as assistant professor of economics at the University of Kansas to take a position in the Department of Labor at Washington.

Professor Allyn A. Young, of Cornell University, is Director of the Bureau of Research of the War Trade Board at Washington.

Professor Arthur N. Young, of Princeton University, is serving under the Board of Export Control at Washington.

Eugen von Philippovich, professor of economics at Vienna University, died June 6, 1917.

Professor Gustav Schmoller died June 27, 1917, at the age of ser enty-nine. From 1882 to 1913 he was professor at the University of Berlin. An extended notice of his life may be found in the Economi Journal for September, 1917, pages 435-438.