News Notes and Announcements.

This article focuses on certain events related to sociology which are to be held. The American Documentation Institute has been incorporated on behalf of leading national scholarly, scientific and informational societies to develop and operate facilities that are expected to promote research and knowledge in various intellectual fields. First objective of the new organization will be to develop and apply the new technique of microphotography to library, scholarly, scientific and other material. It will be able to direct scholarly publication by various methods as required by co-operating organizations. The Japanese Sociological Society is now compiling a book in English on the development of sociology in Japan, which is to be presented to the members of the International Congress of Educationists who meet in Tokyo, Japan this Summer. It will contain a section on rural sociology prepared by professor Eitaro Suzuki. Professor Read Bain of Miami University, Oxford, Ohio will be the lecturer during 1937-38 in the department of sociology.