UNITED STATES 



members and be voted on by the Board of 

 Governors. Total membership 1,760. 



Meetings: Annual. 



Professional activities: Annual Awards of 

 Merit, for outstanding achievement ; special 

 awards voted by the Board of Governors. 



Library: 3,000 volumes. 



9. Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 



19th Street and Parkway, Philadelphia 3, Pa. 

 President: M. Albert Linton. Director: H. 

 Radclyffe Roberts. Term indefinite. 



History: Founded 1812, incorporated 1817; 

 oldest center for natural science research in the 

 western hemisphere; has complete facilities 

 for basic taxonomic research, study collections ; 

 has active research projects in malacology, 

 ornithology, entomology, limnology, geology, and 

 ichthyology. 



Purpose: Research in the natural science field. 



Membership: Open to any person interested 

 in the program of the Academy. Annual In- 

 dividual Members, Junior Members, Family 

 Members, Contributing Members, Life Members, 

 Sustaining Members, Benefactors, and Patrons. 

 Total membership 2,600. 



Meetings: Annual. 



Professional activities: Jessup Fund Grant, 

 awarded to college or graduate students, men 

 or women, for special projects; Hayden Me- 

 morial Geological Award, for geological or 

 paleontological research ; Leidy Medal and 

 Richard Hopper Day Memorial Medal, for out- 

 standing work in natural science. 



Publications: Proceedings, annual. Editor: 

 C. W. Hart, Jr., Frontiers, five times yearly, 

 $2.50, free to members. Editor : M. E. Drinker. 



Library: 140,000 volumes. Subject emphasis: 

 natural sciences. 



10. Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine. 



President: George F. Sutherland, 3700 North 

 Charles Street, Baltimore 18, Md. Term ex- 

 pires October 15, 1961. Secretary: Bertram B. 

 Moss, 55 East Washington Street, Chicago 2, 

 111. Term expires October 15, 1961. 



History: Organized March 28, 1952. 



Purpose: To advance scientific knowledge and 

 practice of medicine relating to interaction of 

 mind, body, and environment. 



Membership: Requires membership in the 

 medical profession or in related disciplines in 

 the psychosomatic field. Total membership 515. 



Meetings: Annual. 



Professional activities: Annual award for best 

 paper presented at meeting. 



Publications: Psychosomatics, bimonthly, cur- 

 rent volume : 3, $10 ; Meeting Abstracts, annual, 

 current volume : 2, $5. Editor : Wilfred Dorfman. 



11. Academy of Religion and Mental Health. 



16 East 34th Street, New York 16, N. Y. 

 President: Harvey J. Tompkins, Reiss Mental 

 Health Pavilion, St. Vincent's Hospital, New 

 York, N. Y. Term expires June 1962. 

 Executive Secretary: George C. Anderson. 

 Term expires June 1962. 



History: Former name: National Academy of 

 Religion and Mental Health. Incorporated in 

 1955 and had its first offices in the New York 

 Academy of Medicine. 



Purpose: Education and research in relation 

 between religion and health, especially mental 

 health. 



Membership: Requires affiliation with pro- 

 fessional groups involved in Academy's pro- 

 gram ; primarily clergymen, psychologists, 

 psychiatrists, physicians, cultural anthropologists, 

 sociologists, and social workers. Total mem- 

 bership 2,700. 



Meetings: Annual. 



Professional activities: Grants in aid; re- 

 search grants. 



Publications: Academy Reporter, monthly (to 

 members only), current volume: 5. 



Library: 2,000 volumes. Subject emphasis: 

 religion and mental health. 



12. Academy of Science and Art of Pittsburgh. 



Carnegie Museum, 4400 Forbes Avenue, Pitts- 

 burgh 13, Pa. President: O. E. Jennings. Term 

 expires February 1961. Executive Secretary: 

 H. E. Phifer, 1104 La Clair Avenue, Pitts- 

 burgh 18, Pa. Term expires February 1961. 



History: Organized 1889; incorporated March 

 10, 1890. Sections : Astronomical, Photo- 

 graphic. 



Purpose: Advancement of science and art 

 through lectures and the work of the sections. 



Membership: Open to persons with interest 

 in the purpose of this Academy. Total member- 

 ship 1,700. 



Meetings: Weekly, October to April. 



Professional activities: Walter B. Scaife 

 Nature Lectureship, capital $10,000; geograph- 

 ical lectures ; Annual Photographic Salon, con- 

 ducted by Photographic Section ; laboratory con- 

 struction of telescopes and participation in 

 satellite observations by Astronomical Section. 



13- Academy of Science of St. Louis. 2 Oak 



Knoll Park, St. Louis 5, Mo. President: 

 Stratford Lee Morton, 1825 Boatmen's Bank 

 Building, St. Louis 2, Mo. Term expires 

 January 1961. Executive Secretary: Roy W. 

 Jordan, 8224 Forsyth Boulevard, Clayton 5, 

 Mo. Term expires January 1961. 



