Edwin Vernon Morgan '90 has recently been appointed secretary of legation at Seoul, Korea. He was connected with the history department here in 1894 and later became professor of history at Adelbert College, Cleveland.

The Peabody Museum has recently received a very valuable totem pole from Alaska, the gift of Mr. E. H. Harriman. The specimen is a Haida pole, 25 feet in length and is one of five carried away recently from Cape Fox Village by the Harriman Scientific Expedition. The pole was obtained for the Peabody Museum by Mr. Charles Palache. Cape Fox Village, which is on the mainland about 50 miles above the southern boundary of Alaska, was abandoned by the Indians twenty-five years ago.

Professor Henry Crosby Emery, A.M., '93, professor of political economy and sociology at Bowdoin College for the past two years, has been chosen to fill the professorship of political economy at Yale left open by the resignation of Professor Irving Fisher. Professor Emery graduated from Bowdoin in the class of 1892 and studied economics and philosophy at Harvard, receiving the degree of A. M. He also received the degree of Ph.D. from Columbia and afterwards studied for two years in Berlin.