of the North Central States Branch of the Entomological Society of 

 America. Miss Lillian A. Ross, Associate in the Division of Insects 

 and Associate Editor of Scientific Publications, attended the meet- 

 ings of the American Institute of Biological Sciences in Bloomington 

 and represented the Museum at the Conference of Biological Editors 

 in Washington, D.C. Dr. Fritz Haas, Curator of Lower Inverte- 

 brates, and Dr. Alan Solem, Assistant Curator, attended the annual 

 meeting of the American Malacological Union in Ann Arbor. 



Philip Hershkovitz, Curator of Mammals, attended the Fifteenth 

 International Zoological Congress in London (see page 68), where 

 he participated in drafting the new International Code of Zoological 

 Nomenclature, and was a speaker and panelist at the symposium on 

 systematic zoology held in Washington, D.C, by the Society of 

 Systematic Zoology. He also attended the annual meetings in 

 Tucson, Arizona, of the American Society of Mammalogists, as did 

 Miss Sophie Andris, Osteologist, and D. D wight Davis, Curator of 

 Vertebrate Anatomy, who continued to serve as a trustee of the 

 society. Curator Davis presented two papers ("The Proper Goal 

 of Comparative Anatomy" and "A Naturalist in the Tropics Today") 

 at the Centenary Science Congress held at the University of Malaya, 

 Singapore, in December to commemorate the work of Charles Darwin 

 and Alfred Russel Wallace (he received a travel grant for this trip 

 from the National Science Foundation). 



John R. Millar, Deputy Director of the Museum, attended two 

 conferences of administrative officers of research museums of natural 

 history, one held at the Philadelphia Academy of Sciences in May and 

 the other at New York State Museum, Albany, in October (both 

 meetings were supported by grants from the National Science 

 Foundation). Miss Miriam Wood, Chief of James Nelson and Anna 

 Louise Raymond Foundation, attended the annual meeting in 

 Kansas City of the Midwest Conference of Museums of the Amer- 

 ican Association of Museums. Meetings of the American Library 

 Association and of Special Libraries Association were attended by 

 Mrs. Meta P. Howell, Librarian, and Mrs. M. Eileen Rocourt, 

 Associate Librarian. Mrs. Rocourt was program chairman of the 

 Museum Division of Special Libraries Association during its annual 

 convention held in Chicago in June, when she was elected vice- 

 chairman of the Museum Division. Members of the Museum Divi- 

 sion and the Geography and Map Division of the convention visited 

 our Museum Library, where they were welcomed by the Director of 

 the Museum, Dr. Clifford C. Gregg, who talked to them on "Col- 

 lectors' Items," after which they were conducted on a general tour 

 of Museum exhibits by Miss Wood, Chief of Raymond Foundation. 



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