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Dr. L. M. Waugh, was commissioned by President Hoover on April 1st as a Dental Surgeon, in the Reserve of the United States Public Health Service. He has been detailed to the Coast Guard Service with the rank of Lt. Commander and will be on active duty aboard the cutter "Northland", on her annual cruise to the Arctic Ocean. Dr. Waugh will join the ship at Unalaska the latter part of June. It will be his duty to attend to the dental needs of the crew and natives along the coast.

Point Barrow, Alaska, will be the most northerly settlement visited by the "Northland." From there, Dr. Waugh will travel eastward in a small boat along the south coast of the Arctic Ocean to MacKenzie Bay. In this section he hopes to reach the most primitive Eskimo to be found in Alaska, his first object being to extend his researches into the "Nutrition and Health of the Alaskan Eskimo."

For the past three years he has made a similar study of the Labrador Eskimo. He will also gather data on venereal diseases and information for other departments of the Government.

Leave of absence has been granted him by Columbia University under whose auspices the research will be made.

He will take his regular camera equipment and a generous supply of film with him. He expects to return about the middle of September.