ACTIVITIES OF STAFF MEMBERS IN SCIENTIFIC 

 AND PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES 



Dr. Paul S. Martin, Chief Curator of Anthropology, Dr. Donald 

 Collier, Curator of South American Archaeology and Ethnology, 

 and George I. Quimby, Curator of North American Archaeology 

 and Ethnology, attended the annual meeting in Salt Lake City of 

 the Society for American Archaeology and the annual meeting in 

 Mexico City of the American Anthropological Association. Allen S. 

 Liss, Custodian of Collections, attended the meeting in Carbondale, 

 Illinois, of the Midwest Archaeological Conference and the meeting 

 in Urbana of the Illinois Archaeological Survey, of which he is a 

 member of the board of directors. 



Dr. Theodor Just, Chief Curator of Botany, was host to a 

 meeting in the Museum in February to plan the program for the 

 Ninth International Botanical Congress that was held later in the 

 year in Montreal. At the Congress he presented a paper at a 

 meeting of the Paleobotanical Section and participated in meetings 

 of the International Committee on Paleobotanical Nomenclature, of 

 which he is a member. Local arrangements for the annual meeting 

 of the Conference of Biological Editors, which was held in the 

 Library of the Museum in April, were made by Chief Curator Just 

 and Miss Lillian A. Ross, Associate Editor of Scientific Publications. 

 Dr. Just, who continues to serve as chairman of the committee for 

 editorial policy for the Conference of Biological Editors, was elected 

 vice-president. He continued as a member of the International 

 Committee on Paleobotanical Nomenclature and as a member of 

 the program committee for the International Botanical Congress. 



Dr. Robert H. Denison, Curator of Fossil Fishes, Dr. Rainer 

 Zangerl, Curator of Fossil Reptiles, and William D. Turnbull, Assist- 

 ant Curator of Fossil Mammals, attended the meetings in Pittsburgh 

 of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, where Curator Denison 

 was elected secretary-treasurer. Curator Zangerl attended the meet- 

 ing in Pittsburgh of the Board of Directors of the American Geo- 

 logical Institute. Albert W. Forslev, Associate Curator of Mineral- 

 ogy, attended the meetings in Pittsburgh of the Geological Society 

 of America and was appointed to a committee of the Mineralogical 

 Society of America that is engaged in compiling a list of the out- 

 standing mineral collections in the United States. 



Philip Hershkovitz, Curator of Mammals, Dr. Karl Koopman, 

 Assistant Curator of Mammals, and Miss Sophie Andris, Osteol- 

 ogist, attended the meeting in Washington, D.C., of the Ameri- 

 can Society of Mammalogists. Dr. Austin L. Rand, Chief Curator 



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