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SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL SOCIETIES 



History: Organized March 10, 1856; incor- 

 porated January 17, 1857. 



Purpose: To encourage interest in and under- 

 standing of the sciences, and, as a means to this 

 end, to develop and maintain a museum and 

 library, to hold meetings, to sponsor lectures, 

 and to engage in any other appropriate scientific 

 activities. 



Membership: An interest in the purposes of 

 the Academy. Total membership 1,100. 



Meetings: Monthly. 



Professional activities: Maintains a museum 

 of science, a science school service, and a science 

 career program for promising young people. 



Publications: Your Museum, monthly, free to 

 members. Editor : Sally Haven. 



Library: 75,000 Volumes. 



14. Acoustical Society of America. 335 East 

 45th Street, New York 17, N. Y. President: 

 Robert W. Young, United States Navy 

 Electronics Laboratory, San Diego 52, Calif. 

 Term expires May 1961. Secretary: Wallace 

 Waterfall. Term expires May 1961. 



History: Organized May 10, 1929. Chap- 

 ters : Delaware Valley ; Los Angeles ; 

 Michigan ; Northwest ; San Diego ; Washington, 

 D. C. Committees : Architectural Acous- 

 tics ; Audio Engineering and Electroacoustics ; 

 Musical Acoustics ; Noise ; Physical Acoustics ; 

 Psychological and Physiological Acoustics ; 

 Shock and Vibration ; Sonic and Ultrasonic 

 Engineering ; Speech Communication ; Under- 

 water Acoustics. The Society is a founder and 

 Member Society of the American Institute of 

 Physics and participates in the management of 

 the Institute through representation on its 

 Governing Board. 



Purpose: To increase and diffuse the 

 knowledge of acoustics and to promote its prac- 

 tical applications. 



Membership: Associate: open to any person 

 interested in acoustics ; Active : open to any 

 ])erson active in acoustics, who has an academic 

 degree or its equivalent in scientific or profes- 

 sional experience in acoustics or in a closely 

 related field ; Fellow : based on assessment of 

 the candidate's contributions to the advancement 

 of acoustical science and technology ; Sustain- 

 ing : available for corporations and other 

 organizations interested in materially supporting 

 the publications and activities of the Society ; 

 Honorary. Total membership 2,814. 



Meetings: Semiaimual. 



Professional activities: The Society is an 

 agency in the management of the Acoustical 

 Standards Board of the American Stand- 

 ards Association and various committees 

 and subcommittees reporting to that Board ; 

 the Society contributes to the development 



and maintenance of standards for acoustical 

 devices affecting health and industrial efficiency ; 

 to encourage professional activity on a local 

 scale, the Society has sponsored several regional 

 chapters and has provided for more as needed ; 

 the Society's ten technical committees assist and 

 cooperate with local program chairmen in the 

 arrangement of meetings, the promotion of new 

 developments in their respective fields, the 

 representation of the Society in joint sponsor- 

 ship of meetings with other organizations, re- 

 sponsibility for adequate coverage of subject 

 matter in the publications of the Society ; the 

 committees also promote improved educational 

 facilities for the study of acoustics in technical 

 schools; each committee publishes in the Jour- 

 nal an annual report of its membership and 

 activities ; Biennial Award of $100 and a bound 

 set of the Journal is made in the spring of each 

 even-numbered year to a member of the Society 

 not over thirty-five years of age who has made 

 outstanding research contributions to acoustics ; 

 Gold Medal, awarded in the spring of each odd- 

 numbered year to a member, without respect to 

 age, whose services to the science of acoustics 

 and to the Society have been unusually distin- 

 guished ; Wallace Clement Sabine Medal, award- 

 ed at fall meetings every two to three years to a 

 member who has made outstanding contributions 

 in the field of architectural acoustics ; Under- 

 water Acoustics Medal, awarded at fall meet- 

 ings to a member who has made outstanding 

 contributions in the field of underwater acoustics. 



Publications: Journal, monthly, current vol- 

 ume : 32, $18, free to members. Editor : R. Bruce 

 Lindsay. Noise Control, bimonthly, current vol- 

 ume : 6, $8. Managing Editor : Herbert A. Erf. 



15. Aerospace Medical Association. Washington 

 National Airport, Washington 1, D. C. Presi- 

 dent: George J. Kidera, United Air Lines, 

 Inc., 5959 South Cicero Avenue, Chicago 38, 

 111. Term expires April 1961. Executive Vice 

 President : William J. Kennard. Term expires 

 April 1961. 



History: Organized 1928; formerly Aero 

 Medical Association. 



Purpose: To promote the science and art of 

 aerospace medicine by stimulating investigation 

 and study and disseminating knowledge ; to 

 establish and maintain cooperation between the 

 medical and other sciences concerned with aero- 

 nautical development and progress ; and to pro- 

 mote, protect, and maintain safety in aviation and 

 astronautics. 



Membership: Open to physicians licensed in 

 country of residence, or designated as aviation 

 medical examiner, flight surgeon, or aviation 

 medical director, past or present, by government 

 of nation of citizenship ; to allied scientists or 



