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The article presents titles and abstracts of papers submitted at a meeting held in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1938. The paper "The Sequent Occupance of a Boston Suburban Community," presented by Edward A. Ackerman focuses on areas surrounding the Boston metropolitan district. The proximity of a large city market, plots of level land and fertile soil determine the existence of these suburban fanning communities. The article "The Recession of Victoria Falls," by Wallace W. Atwood. The world famous falls on the Zainbesi have had a strange and remarkable history in recession. The gorge is serpentine with many curious off-shoots, and located on the floor of a broad and much older flat-bottomed valley. Today the water tumbles over a ledge, fully a mile in length, and into a very narrow chasm 350 ft. deep.

Information about several papers discussed at a symposium on chemical and bacteriological warfare of the Society for Social Responsibility in Science held in Boston, Massachusetts is presented. Speakers discuss the effect of the chemical and bacteriological weapons to the public health, which are found to be more humane than the nuclear weapons. The symposium features several scientists like Henry T. Yost, Salvador E. Luria, and J. Huston Westover.

Abbott Lawrence Rotch was born in Boston, January 6, 1861. He was graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (S.B.) in 1884. From 1888 to 1891, and again from 1902 to 1906, he held the appointment of assistant in meteorology at Harvard, a position which involved no teaching and in which no salary was paid. In 1906 he was appointed professor of meteorology, an honor which he prized very highly, and which gave him the position on the teaching staff of the university to which he was in every way fully entitled. He was the first professor of meteorology who has occupied that position at Harvard, and he served in this professorship without pay.

The article discusses the open letter on nuclear policy from 175 college and university professors in the Boston area to U.S. President John F. Kennedy. The material appeared in the August 21 issue of New York Times as an advertisement. It also published previous letters from Boston area professors, the first dealing with civil defense and the second with Cuba. Several of the endorsers have decided to form the informally organized Boston Area Faculty Group on Public Issues. The first civil defense letter appeared in the New York Times on November 10, 1961 after two months in newspapers nationwide. The issue is focused on the concerned inspection. The U.S. insists on unlimited inspection at an early stage, but the U.S.S.R. declines it until a late stage.