Washington, D.C., for which he continued as chairman of the 

 committee for editorial poHcy. He also continued as a member of 

 the International Committee on Paleobotanical Nomenclature and 

 as a member of the program committee for paleobotany for the 

 Ninth International Botanical Congress to be held in Montreal in 

 1959. He prepared the "Bibliography of American Paleobotany, 

 1952-1957" on behalf of the Paleobotanical Section of the Botanical 

 Society of America. 



Dr. Rainer Zangerl, Curator of Fossil Reptiles, Dr. Robert H. 

 Denison, Curator of Fossil Fishes, and David Techter, Assistant 

 in Fossil Vertebrates, attended a joint meeting in Ann Arbor, 

 Michigan, of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology and the Society 

 for the Study of Evolution, where Curator Zangerl took part in a 

 symposium on problems in vertebrate morphology and Curator 

 Denison read a paper on the relationships of acanthodian and 

 placoderm fishes. Both men also took part in the combined meet- 

 ings in Washington, D.C., of the American Society of Zoologists 

 and the American Society for the Advancement of Science. Curator 

 Zangerl attended the annual meeting in St. Louis of the board of 

 directors of the American Geological Institute, to which he had 

 been appointed by the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, William 

 D. Turnbull, Assistant Curator of Fossil Mammals, attended in 

 western Montana the Eighth Field Conference of the Society of 

 Vertebrate Paleontology. Bertram G. Woodland, Associate Curator 

 of Petrology, attended the annual meeting in St. Louis of the 

 Geological Society of America. 



Dr. Austin L. Rand, Chief Curator of Zoology, and Melvin A. 

 Traylor, Jr., Assistant Curator of Birds, attended the meetings in 

 New York of the American Ornithologists' Union, of which Emmet 

 R. Blake, Curator of Birds, was appointed to the Committee on 

 Classification and Nomenclature. Dr. Robert F. Inger, Curator 

 of Amphibians and Reptiles, and Assistant Hymen Marx attended 

 the annual meetings in Bloomington of the American Society of 

 Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, where Assistant Marx read a 

 paper. Loren P. Woods, Curator of Fishes, attended the meetings 

 of the Illinois Academy of Science at Urbana and judged the junior 

 science exhibits. Dr. Edward M. Nelson, Associate in the Division 

 of Fishes, presented papers at the American Institute of Biological 

 Sciences in Bloomington and at the American Association for 

 the Advancement of Science (Society of Morphology) in Washing- 

 ton, D.C. Rupert L. Wenzel, Curator of Insects, attended the meet- 

 ings in Salt Lake City of the Entomological Society of America. 

 Associate Curator Henry S. Dybas attended the meetings in St. Louis 



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