Dr. Clifford C. Gregg, Director of the Museum, addressed the 

 International Council of Museums in Stockholm in July and was 

 a member of The Natural History Museums' Committee of fifteen 

 that met at Oslo in June. E. Leland Webber, Executive Assistant, 

 and Miss Miriam Wood, Chief of Raymond Foundation, represented 

 the Museum at the annual meeting in Toledo of the Midwest Con- 

 ference of Museums of the American Association of Museums. Miss 

 Wood, who was chairman of the program and moderator of the 

 session on education in museums, was elected president of the Mid- 

 west Conference of Museums. 



In connection with his duties as associate editor of the new 

 worldwide anthropological journal Current Anthropology, Curator 

 Force received a grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation for An- 

 thropological Research to aid in exploration of problems of com- 

 munication among anthropologists the world over. Dr. Robert F. 

 Inger, Curator of Amphibians and Reptiles, was elected herpeto- 

 logical editor of Copeia, Assistant Curator Rinaldo was appointed 

 to the editorial staff of Archives of Archaeology, and Curator Wenzel 

 was appointed to the advisory board of the Encyclopaedia Britannica 

 to serve as advisor in the field of entomology. 



Members of our staff who continued to serve in various capa- 

 cities on editorial boards of scientific journals include Curator Collier, 

 American Antiquity; Curator Davis, Copeia; Curator Inger, Evolu- 

 tion; Chief Curator Just, Lloydia (editor); Mrs. Rocourt, Bulletin 

 [of Museum Division of Special Libraries Association]; Dr. John W. 

 Thieret, Curator of Economic Botany, Economic Botany; Assistant 

 Curator Turnbull, Saugertierkundliche Mitteilungen (Stuttgart, Ger- 

 many) and Society of Vertebrate Paleontology News Bulletin; and 

 Curator Woods, The American Midland Naturalist. 



Several members of the Museum's scientific staff contribute re- 

 views and articles to various learned journals or write books on 

 subjects within the Museum's fields of interest and research. A 

 bibliography of some of this material in 1959 is on page 104. 



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