PROFESSOR W. A. PATON APPOINTED LECTURER

William A. Paton, professor of Economics and Accounting at the University of Michigan, will deliver the annual Dickinson Lectures on accounting at the Graduate School of Business Administration next April, the University announced yesterday. His lectures will deal particularly with recent and prospective developments in the fields of accounting.

A former president of the American Accounting Association, Professor Paton has been director of Research for the Association since 1935. He has written extensively on accounting theory, and has served as editor of the Accountant's Handbook.

He has been professor of Economics and Accounting at Michigan since 1921, was a member of the Burean of Research and Statistics of the War Trade Board in 1918, and of the Income Tax Unit of the Burean of Internal Revenue in 1919. He is now serving on the committee on accounting procedure of the American Institute of Accountants.