ECONOMIC RESEARCH.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18567, 17 December 1925, Page 11

ECONOMIC RESEARCH.

ROCKEFELLER MEMORIAL. Advice has been received in Christchurch that Dr. E. R. Embree, of the Rockefeller Foundation, who was recently in Christchurch, has arranged, with the University of Melbourne that Dr. D. B. Copland, Professor and.Dean of the Faculty of Commerce in the University, shall act as the representative of the Laura Spellman Rockefeller Memorial in Australia. This is one of the foundations of John D. Rockefeller and is devoted to the encouragement of economic and social research. _ The intention is that American students shall be given fellowships to study economic and social development in Australia under the direction of Dr. Copland, and thai similar fellowships shall lx> available for Australian students to study in the United States. In order to facilitate the initiation of the scheme the Memorial has invited Dr. Copland to visit the United States and Canada, and possibly England, in order to study the teaching of economics in the important universities of those countries. He will l>o away for about six months and will be the guest of the Memorial from the time he leaves Melbourne. He will consult with Ihe authorities of the Memorial concerning the selection of Australian fellows and the general administration of the scheme. Dr. Copland received his training in economics at Canterbury "College under Professor J. Hight. He graduated M.A. with first-class honours in nomics in 1915 and after a short period of service in the office_of the Government Statistician, he was appointed lecturer in Economics in the University of Tasmania. He was soon raised to the rank of Professor, and in 1924 was appointed the first professor of commerce in the University of Melbourne. • In 1924, also, he gained the degree of D.Sc. in Economics of the University of New Zealand, for a series of studies in Australian currency and finance. It is understood that the Laura Spellman Rockefeller Memorial is contemplating ine establishment of a similar connexion with New Zealand.