Edward Murray East, professor of Genetics, and John Donald Black, professor of Economics are two of the three American members of a commission recently appointed by the International Union for the Scientific Investigation of Population Problems, it was learned yesterday.
Professors East and Black will be engaged in several phases of work for the Union, in one of which they will assemble all existing statistics concerning the population and food supply of every country in the world, and prepare a bibliography and index for them.
"At present", said Professor Black yesterday, "each country collects its own statistics according to its own ideas, which makes it very difficult for a student of foreign problems to put them together and reach any true conclusions. Our job is to make them readily available for use."
At the same time that this commission is doing its work for the Union, it was be enlarging and correlating the material now in the College Library. Then first foreign study will be of Switzerland France, Germany, and Italy, in which they will be assisted by Dr Frits Bach man of the University of Berne.
The research is made possible by lands from the Rockefeller land.
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