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THE following appointments have been made in the University of London: Dr. R. W. Firth has been appointed as from October 1 to the University chair of anthropology tenable at the London School of Economics. Since 1941 he has been in Government employment at the Admiralty, and in July 1944 he was appointed secretary to the Colonial Social Science Research Council. Dr. R. G. D. Allen has been appointed as from October 1 to the University chair of statistics tenable at the School. Since 1940 he has been in the United States on government service, and is at present British director of statistics to the Combined Production and Resources Board at Washington.
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London School of Economics: Appointments. Nature 154, 666 (1944). https://doi.org/10.1038/154666b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/154666b0