University of Alberta: Dr. I.N. Baker, a graduate of the University of Adelaide, has been appointed Assistant Professor. His thesis on entire functions has been accepted at the University of Tubingen (Germany) for the degree of* Dr. rer. nat. Dr. G.C. Crée, a graduate of McGill and Washington University (St. Louis), has joined the staff as Assistant Professor. He was formerly at the University of Nebraska, in Lincoln. Dr. Shanti S. Gupta, a graduate in mathematical statistics of the University of North Carolina, and latterly employed with the Bell Telephone Laboratories at Allentown, Pa., has been appointed Associate Professor. Dr. H.F.J. Lowig of the University of Tasmania (Hobart) and formerly from Czechoslovakia, has been appointed Associate Professor; his special field is algebra.