Dr. RuDMOSE Brown is head of the department of geography 

 at Sheffield University, England. He has also been assistant pro- 

 fessor of botany in the University of St. Andrews and University 

 College, Dundee, and reader in geography at the University of 

 Manchester. In 1902-1904 he was a member of the scientific stafT 

 of the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition. To the scientific 

 reports of this expedition he contributed various papers ("The Prob- 

 lems of Antarctic Plant Life" and papers on the botany of the South 

 Orkneys, of Gough Island, and of Ascension, Vol. 3, Parts I-IV, 

 Edinburgh, 1912; "The Seals of the Weddell Sea: Notes on Their 

 Habits and Distribution," Vol. 4, Part III, 1915). With R. C. 

 Mossman and J. H. H. Pirie he wrote a general account of the 

 expedition entitled "The Voyage of the Scotia" (Edinburgh, 1906). 

 In 1906 Dr. Brown was appointed special commissioner to study 

 the pearl oyster fisheries of the Mergui Archipelago off the western 

 coast of the Malay Peninsula (see his "The Mergui Archipelago: 

 Its People and Products," Scottish Geogr. Mag., Vol. 23, 1907). In 

 1909 and 1912 he visited Spitsbergen. Out of his extensive per- 

 sonal knowledge of the group he has written "Spitsbergen, Terra 

 Nullius" {Geogr. Rev., Vol. 7, 1919); "The Present State of Spits- 

 bergen" {Scottish Geogr. Mag., Vol. 35, 1919); "Spitsbergen, an Ac- 

 count of Exploration, Hunting, the Mineral Riches and Future 

 Potentialities of an Arctic Archipelago," London, 1920. He is also 

 the author of "The Principles of Economic Geography," London, 

 1920; "A Naturalist at the Poles; The Life, Work, and Voyages of 

 Dr. W. S. Bruce, the Polar Explorer," London, 1923; and "The 

 Polar Regions," London, 1927, which is the first adequate textbook 

 in English on the Arctic and Antarctic written from the standpoint 

 of modern geography. 



