AUTHORITY ON ESKIMOS TO ADDRESS UNION WEDNESDAY

Active resumption of the winter program at the Union will take place Wednesday when Donald B. MacMillan, Arctic explorer, will address the members. The meeting will take place at 8 o'clock in the Living Room and Mr. MacMillan, who will be introduced by Professor W. W. Atwood of the Geological Department will speak on "Five Years with the Polar Eskimos." His lecture will be illustrated by 140 photographic slides of his Arctic travels.

Mr. MacMillan is a very graphic and eloquent speaker, and has a large store of experiences gained during his many years in the Arctic, first with Peary and later at the head of his own expeditions, from which to draw the material for his lecture.

Mr. MacMillan was born in Provincetown in 1874 and later attended Bowdoin College, receiving his A.B. degree from there kin 1898. for ten years thereafter he taught in various New England secondary schools. He was principal of Levi hall High School of North Gorham, Me., for two years and then transferred to the Swarthmore Preparatory School of which he was head of the Classical Department from 1900 to 1903. During the remaining five years of his teaching he was an instructor at Worcester Academy.

Trip to Baffin Land in 1920-21.

In 1908 he left the teaching profession and became Assistant to Peary on his successful dash for the North Pole in 1908-1909. Throughout the subsequent three years the explorer made cruising trips along the Labrador Coast especially to study ethnologically the Eskimos and Indians living there.

The Crocker Land Expedition, lasting from 1913 to 1917 was commanded by Mr. MacMillan, and the newest of his undertakings is the Bowdoin-Baffin Land Expedition which is scheduled to take place in 1920-1921.

Throughtout his Arctic wanderings Mr. MacMillan has covered more than 10,000 miles by dog team in company with the Polar Eskimos He has made an extensive study of the Smith Sound tribe and especially of the bird and animal life of the far North.

The meeting on Wednesday is open only to members of the Union, who will be admitted upon showing their membership cards.