NEWS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS.

The article presents various developments related to social sciences. The District of Columbia Chapter of the American Sociological Society concluded a successful year under the leadership of Clyde W. Hart on Monday, April 1. At the meeting on that date the following were elected as officers for the 1946-47 term: Margaret Jarman Hagood, president; Raymond V. Bowers, vice-president; Ruth Reed, secretary-treasurer; Harry Alpert, alternate representative on the Executive Committee. The Board of Missions, the Board of Evangelism and the Crusade for Christ of the Methodist Church will distribute among their workers 1,000 copies of The World's Need of Christ by Dr. Charles A. Eliwood, Emeritus Professor of Sociology of Duke University. This book was first published in 1940. This new edition, now in press, will be bound in paper covers, and will not be put on sale. Dr. Eliwood will represent the American Sociological Society as its official representative at the Sesquicentennial celebration at the University of North Carolina April 12 and 13.