News Notes.

Harvard University Professor Pitirim A. Sorokin has been named to the advisory council of the Institute of European Studies, a non-profit organization conducting foreign study programs for American college students. Professor Sorokin joins a group of leading United States educators formed during the past year to advise the Institute on matters pertaining to courses, standards and the over-all objectives of its existing and projected overseas study programs. Professor Fred C. Frey will retire on June 30, 1962. The first head of the Department of Sociology, Professor Frey has had a long and distinguished career of serviced to the university and the profession. The University of New England, Australia, has announced that it is providing a course in sociology for the first time this year. The European Society for Rural Sociology announces the publication of its journal Sociologia Ruralis. Publication is twice a year and the annual subscription rate is $6.25. The Twentieth congress of the International Institute of Sociology will meet at Cordoba, Argentina, September 12-18, 1962. Academicians are invited to participate. The theme for this meeting is "Sociology of Societies in Industrial Development."