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SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL SOCIETIES 



Professional activities: Several endowment 

 funds of the Institute are designated to sup- 

 port The Engineering Societies Library, service 

 to students and young engineers, technical pub- 

 lications, and the promotion of the sciences and 

 the arts embraced by AIME. The Institute and 

 particularly its Woman's Auxiliary sponsor 

 about forty scholarships each year. James 

 Douglas Gold Medal, to recognize distinguished 

 achievement in nonferrous metallurgy. WiUiam 

 Lawrence Saunders Gold Medal, to recognize 

 distinguished achievement in mining. Anthony 

 F. Lucas Gold Medal, to recognize distinguished 

 achievement in improving the technique and 

 practice of finding and producing petroleum. 

 Erskine Ramsay Gold Medal, to recognize dis- 

 tinguished achievement in coal mining. Ben- 

 jamin F. Fairless Award, in recognition of dis- 

 tinguished achievement in iron and steel pro- 

 duction and metallurgy. Charles F. Rand Medal, 

 for distinguished achievement in mining ad- 

 ministration. Robert H. Richards Award, to 

 recognize achievement which furthers the art 

 of mineral beneficiation. Hal Williams Hardinge 

 Award, to recognize outstanding achievement in 

 the field of industrial minerals. The Institute 

 also has several best-technical-paper awards. 



Publications: Mining Engineering Journal, 

 monthly, current volume: 12, $8 to North, South, 

 and Central America, $10 elsewhere. Editor: 

 R. A. Beals. Journal of Metals, monthly, current 

 volume: 12, $10. Editor: F. W. Starratt. Jour- 

 nal of Petroleum Technology, monthly, current 

 volume: 12, $8 to North, South, and Central 

 America, $10 elsewhere. Editor : R. W. Taylor. 

 Bimonthly Transactions of the Metallurgical 

 Society, current volume: 218, $5 to members; 

 $20 to nonmembers in North, South, and Central 

 America ; $25 elsewhere. Editor : Gerhard 

 Derge. 



207. American Institute of Nutrition. Presi- 

 dent: Floyd S. Daft, Building 4, Room 313, 

 National Institutes of Health, Bethesda 14, 

 Md. Term expires June 30, 1961. Secretary: 

 Arnold E. Schaefer, Building 16A, Room 100, 

 National Institutes of Health, Bethesda 14, 

 Md. Term expires June 30, 1963. 



History: Organized with a provisional charter 

 on September 27, 1928 ; with permanent charter 

 November 16, 1934; first annual meeting held 

 in March 1934. 



Purpose: To extend the knowledge of nutri- 

 tion and to facilitate personal contact between 

 investigators in nutrition and closely allied fields 

 of interest. 



Membership : Members, 749, persons who have 

 conducted and published as senior author meri- 

 torious original investigations in some phase 



of nutrition and who are presently professionally 

 active in the field of nutrition. 



Meetings: Annual. 



Publications: Journal of Nutrition, monthly, 

 current volume : 71, $8.50 to members, $22.50 

 to nonmembers. Editor : James S. Ream. 



208. American Institute of Pacific Relations, 

 Inc. 333 Sixth Avenue, New York 14, N. Y. 

 Chairman: Albert Mayer. Term expires 

 October 1960. Executive Secretary: William 

 L. Holland. Term expires October 1960. 



History: Founded 1925 as the American Coun- 

 cil of the Institute of Pacific Relations, an inter- 

 national organization. Incorporated 1938 ; name 

 changed to present title November 1946. 



Purpose: To promote the study of the prob- 

 lems of the peoples and nations of the Pacific 

 area and eastern and southern Asia. 



Membership: Open to all persons with an 

 interest in Asian and Pacific problems. Voting 

 rights limited to citizens of the United States. 

 Classes : associate, contributing, and support- 

 ing. Total membership 480. 



Meetings: Annual, with occasional special 

 meetings. 



Professional activities: Funds for research are 

 appropriated from the general budget. 



Publications: Far Eastern Survey, monthly, 

 current volume: 29, $6. Editors: Harold H. 

 Fisher and William L. Holland. 



Library: 4,500 volumes and 80 periodicals and 

 newspapers. 



209- American Institute of Park Executives, Inc. 



Oglebay Park, Wheeling, W. Va. President: 

 Daniel W. Warren, Jr., Superintendent of 

 Parks, Brookline, Mass. Term expires Sep- 

 tember 24, 1961. Executive Secretary: Alfred 

 B. La Gasse. Term indefinite. 



History: Organized 1898 as New England 

 Association of Park Superintendents ; name 

 changed to American Association of Park 

 Superintendents 1904; reorganized and name 

 changed to present title 1921 ; incorporated 1925. 



Purpose: Gathering and disseminating in- 

 formation concerning public parks, gardens, and 

 other recreation grounds, facilities, and pro- 

 grams ; promotion of and cooperation toward 

 increase of such facilities and their greater 

 utilization. 



Membership: Fellows, 1,550, executives of 

 public parks and recreation systems and allied 

 organizations; Sustaining, 177, park commis- 

 sions or boards whose function is correlated with 

 work of this Institute; Associate, 139, per- 

 sons interested in and contributing to the pur- 

 pose of this Institute, and not qualified for other 

 membership; Student, 67; Associate Sustaining, 



