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The Department of Demography in the College of Letters and Science was established in July, 1967. It grew out of the Group in Demography, an inter-department group-degree program established in U.S. Bureau of the Census 1965, which offered the first Ph.D. in dePopulation.-The first of the 1960 Cenmography in the United States. The suesus monographs being prepared through cess of this venture in graduate training the cooperation of the Social Science Reled to the creation of the new department. search Council, Income Distribution in the The only social science department of its United States, by Herman P. Miller, chief kind in the country, it is a basis for exof the Population Division, was published panding the University's already extenin the fall of 1966. This will be followed in sive resources for training in the field of 1967 by three others: "Education of the population studies. American Population," by John K. Folger At present, the new department has and Charles B. Nam, Florida State Unieighteen graduate students, and, in addiversity; "The People of Rural America," tion, the department faculty supervise the by Dale E. Hathaway, J. Allan Beegle, work of nine students in other departand Keith Bryant, Michigan State Uniments who are specializing in population versity; and "Changing Characteristics of studies. The department now offers the the Negro Population," by Daniel Price, M.A. and Ph.D. only, but arrangements University of Texas. are underway for an undergraduate major. Herman P. Miller attended the InterJudith Blake Davis, chairwoman of the national Conference on Comparative Soformer Group in Demography, is the first cial Research which was held in New chairman of the new department. Other Delhi from March 27 to April 1, 1967. Enmembers of the Group who are participatroute to and from the conference, he made ing are Carlo Cipolla, Kingsley Davis, AIofficial stops in London, Paris, Rome, bert Fishlow, and Reuel Stallones. S. K. Budapest, Tel Aviv, and Athens to conSrikantan joined the department in July, sult with officialsof the statistical agencies 1967, as assistant professor of demograin those countries on various aspects of phy, and Nathan Keyfitz will be visiting their population statistics programs. professor of mathematical demography Stanley Greene, chief of the Economic for the winter quarter, 1968. Professor Statistics Branch, has accepted an apKeyfitz also spent the winter quarter of pointment by the United Nations to serve 1967as a visiting professor with the Group as regional manpower advisor for Africa. in Demography. Additional faculty apHe will be in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, for pointments are provided for in the proapproximately one year, attached to the gram. Economic Commission for Africa. In addition to taking over the instrucElizabeth A. Larmon, statistician, is in tion and research activities of the Group Tehran. For four months, she is serving in Demography, the department is closeas an advisor on the second decennial cenly linked with International Population sus of Iran, which was taken in October, and Urban Research (IPUR), which was 1966. Her work is concerned with review begun in 1957. The faculty participate in and analysis of the completed tabulations the administration of IPUR, which funcand with planning reports for publication. tions (under a rotating directorship) as a She is working under the auspices of the