Dr. Donald Calavan-MacRae, PhD, FSA Scot of the American Heraldic & Genealogical Institute, Sacramento to speak to Placer County Genealogical Society on August 25, AT 7 p.m. on the subject of "Heraldry" at Auburn Library, Beecher Room, 350 Nevada Street, Auburn. Guests are invited. Dr. Calavan-MacRae was born in Scotland. He was educated in Europe and the United States. He developed a strong interest at an early age in the familial sciences; i.e., heraldry, genealogy, and the science of names. He began his studies of the heritage sciences with the Scottish system of Heraldry. He became enthralled with languages and linguistics, which is the basis of the science of names. The study of surnames and heraldry became the foundation for genealogy. Among other studies of ethnology and ethnogenics, which pertains to the origins of race and language and ethnic groups; also studied the history of the Clans of Scotland, encompassing both family and Clan tartans. He holds a PhD in etymology from the University of Edinburgh and Shelbourne University of Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland. Joyce