SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL SOCIETIES 



1940; name changed to Air Pollution and Smoke 

 Prevention Association of America in 1950; 

 name changed to present title in 1952. Sec- 

 tions : Central States ; East Central ; Mid- 

 Atlantic States ; Mid-West. Committees : 

 Auditing ; Awards ; By-Laws ; Entertainment ; 

 Finance; Incinerator; Ladies Entertainment; 

 Management ; Marine ; Membership ; Meteor- 

 ological ; Nominating ; Program ; Public Rela- 

 tions ; Railroad Smoke ; Research and Develop- 

 ment ; Resolutions ; Standardization ; Standards 

 for Dust Emission ; Standards for Emission of 

 Solids ; Vapors, Fumes, and Noxious Gases ; 

 Ways and Means. 



Purpose: To improve air sanitation and foster 

 control of atmospheric pollution afifecting health 

 and/or causing damage to property, nuisance to 

 the public, and waste of natural resources ; to 

 encourage public acceptance of the necessity for 

 atmospheric pollution prevention and assist 

 governmental units toward a solution of this 

 problem ; to encourage the development and 

 adoption of apparatus, equipment, and operating 

 procedures that will economically prevent pollu- 

 tion of the atmosphere; to encourage the par- 

 ticipation, cooperation, assistance, and support 

 of medical societies, health associations, and 

 other organizations in air pollution prevention 

 activities ; to encourage industrial, manufactur- 

 ing, producing, and distributing firms and trans- 

 portation agencies and associations of such firms 

 to contribute knowledge and effort to promote 

 experimentation and application of methods to- 

 wards the reduction of atmospheric pollution ; to 

 encourage the development and adoption of 

 engineering standards of performance on a 

 national and international scale that are work- 

 able and reasonable ; to promote research in the 

 solution of problems embracing all sources 

 of atmospheric pollution ; to aid municipalities 

 and public bodies in adopting regulations con- 

 trolling the discharge into the atmosphere of 

 harmful contaminants ; to prepare and distribute 

 literature and publications pertaining to the 

 problems involved in providing cleaner air ; and 

 to maintain a library and information service of 

 professional papers, technical articles and pub- 

 lications, and descriptive material pertaining to 

 cause, effect, and remedy of processes involving 

 atmospheric pollution. 



Membership: Any person of good character, 

 and firms and/or organizations, interested in 

 accomplishing the purposes of this Association. 

 Total membership approximately 2,000. 



Meetings: Annual. 



Professional activities: Frank A. Chambers 

 Award. Richard Beatty Mellon Award. Honor- 

 ary lifetime membership. 



Publications: Journal, bimonthly, current vol- 

 ume : 10, free to members. APCA Abstracts, 



monthly, current volume : 5, free to members. 

 Editor : Arnold Arch. 



19. Airlines Medical Directors Association. 



President: G. Earle Wight, Room 501, Wind- 

 sor Station, Montreal, Canada. Term expires 

 April 24, 1961. Secretary: James N. Wag- 

 goner, 9851 Sepulveda Boulevard, Los Angeles 

 45, Calif. Term expires April 24, 1961. 



History: Organized 1946; affiliate. Aerospace 

 Medical Association. 



Purpose: To improve practice and standards 

 of aviation and industrial medicine, particularly 

 pertaining to airline operations, and to encour- 

 age research and study of medical problems in 

 these fields. 



Membership: Physicians and surgeons of 

 medical departments of commercial airlines, and 

 other persons who have contributed to the prac- 

 tice of aviation medicine in civil airlines. Total 

 membership 85. 



Meetings: Semiannual. 



20. Alabama Academy of Science, Inc. Depart- 

 ment of Forestry, Auburn University, Auburn, 

 Ala. President: James R. Goetz, 2101 6th 

 Avenue, N., Birmingham, Ala. Term expires 

 April 1961. Secretary: W. B. De Vail. Term 

 expires March 1962. 



History: Organized April 1924. Sections: 

 Biological Sciences; Chemistry; Geology and 

 Anthropology ; Forestry, Geography, and Con- 

 servation ; Physics and Mathematics ; Industry 

 and Economics ; Science Education ; Social 

 Sciences ; Medical Sciences. 



Purpose: To encourage scientific research, 

 promote diffusion of useful scientific knowledge, 

 and unify scientific interests of the State. 



Membership: Individual, 535, persons in the 

 State of Alabama actively engaged in science 

 who have four-year college degrees or ten years 

 of professional experience ; Collegiate, 62), col- 

 lege students interested in promotion of science 

 in Alabama ; Complimentary, 61 ; Life, 5 ; In- 

 dustrial, 6, firms and corporations interested in 

 advancement of science in Alabama; Sustain- 

 ing, 11. Total unduplicated membership 664. 



Meetings: Annual. 



Professional activities: Student research 

 awards ; research grants ; various awards 

 through Junior Academy include individual and 

 school awards and awards for best scientific 

 papers and best science exhibits. 



Publications: Journal, quarterly, current vol- 

 ume : 31. Editor : A. T. Hansen, P. O. Box 2982, 

 University of Alabama, University, Ala. 



