Arctic Group Meets

THE ARCTIC INSTITUTE of North America held its third annual meeting in Hanover last month in conjunction with a lecture by one of the members of its board of directors, Col. J. T. Wilson, University of Toronto geophysicist. Colonel Wilson, planner and leader of the joint Canadian-American military expedition "Musk-ox," spoke on the achievements and significance of that Arctic operation.

The Institute, under the directorship of Dr. A. Lincoln Washburn '35, was formed in 1944 when the lack of an organization which would coordinate scientific information on the Arctic became apparent. In addition the Institute serves as a clearing house for proposed Arctic study.

The Board of Directors, which includes President Emeritus Hopkins of Dartmouth, also has Dr. Henry B. Collins Jr. of the Smithsonian Institute, Dr. Richard F. Flint of Yale University, Dr. L. M. Gould of Carleton College, Dr. Vilhjalmur Stefansson, Walter S. Rogers, Dr. Philip S. Smith, Dr. Charles Camsell, Commissioner of the Canadian Northwest Territories, Dr. Diamond Jenness of the National Museum of Canada, Dr. H. L. Keenleyside, Canadian Ambassador to Mexico, Dr. J. J. O'Neill of McGill University, and Colonel Wilson.