SHAPLEY LEAVES FOR WEST ON EXTENDED LECTURE TRIP

Dr. Harlow Shapley of the Harvard Astronomical Observatory who received the honorary degree of Sc. D. from the University of Pittsburg on Wednesday, joined the other members of the Harvard Faculty on extended speaking tours in the West, when he left for the Pacific Coast on Sunday. His itinerary includes brief stays at Leland Stanford University, Mt. Wilson Observatory at Pasadena, the Lowell Observatory at Flaggstaff, Arizona, and finally the Rice Institute of Houston, Texas, where he will deliver a series of three scheduled lectures on March 9, 10, and 11, dealing with the subject of "The Expanding Universe".