ACTIVITIES OF STAFF MEMBERS IN SCIENTIFIC 

 SOCIETIES 



G^eorge I. Quimby, Curator of North American Archaeology and 

 Ethnology, who was retiring president of the Society for American 

 Archaeology, and Dr. Donald Collier, Curator of South American 

 Archaeology and Ethnology, attended the joint annual meetings 

 in Norman, Oklahoma, of the Society for American Archaeology and 

 the Central States Branch of the American Anthropological Associa- 

 tion. Curator Quimby made the presentation speech for the Viking 

 P\ind Archaeology Medalist at a dinner given in New York by the 

 Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research. Curator 

 Collier represented the Museum and the American Anthropological 

 Association as official delegate at the Thirty-third International 

 Congress of Americanists in San Jos6, Costa Rica. 



Dr. Paul S. Martin, Chief Curator of Anthropology, attended a 

 conference (Wenner-Gren Foundation) at Indiana University on the 

 place of museums in higher education. With Dr. John B. Rinaldo, 

 Assistant Curator of Archaeology, he attended a conference on 

 ceramics at the Museum of Northern Arizona, and Dr. Rinaldo 

 attended the Pecos conference on Southwestern archaeology at the 

 University of New Mexico. Dr. Martin, Dr. Roland W. Force, 

 Curator of Oceanic Archaeology and Ethnology, and Phillip H. 

 Lewis, Assistant Curator of Primitive Art, attended the fifty- 

 seventh annual meeting in Washington, D.C., of the American 

 Anthropological Association, at which Assistant Curator Lewis 

 presented a paper. Curator Force became a Fellow of the American 

 Anthropological Association, the fifth member of our Department 

 of Anthropology to be so honored. Assistant Curator Lewis was 

 elected a Fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great 

 Britain and Ireland. Allen S. Liss, Custodian of Collections, attended 

 the Midwest Archaeological Conference in Springfield, Illinois, and 

 the meetings in both Springfield and Urbana of the Illinois Archae- 

 ological Survey (he was elected a member of the board of directors) . 



Dr. Theodor Just, Chief Curator of Botany, attended a con- 

 ference in New York sponsored by the New York Academy of 

 Sciences, where he participated in a symposium on germfree verte- 

 brates. He also attended the annual meeting of the American 

 Institute of Biological Sciences in Bloomington, Indiana. As an 

 active participant in the symposium on Fifty Years of American 

 Paleontology held during the Jubilee Meeting in St. Louis of the 

 Paleontological Society he spoke on "Progress in Paleobotany, 

 1908-1958." He attended the Conference of Biological Editors in 



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