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SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL SOCIETIES 



dignitjf and happiness of a free, independent, and 

 virtuous people. 



Membership: Election is based on nomination 

 by members and not on application by nominee, 

 it implies recognition of scholarship or pro- 

 fessional eminence. There are two groups of 

 members : Fellows, elected from citizens or 

 residents of the United States ; Foreign Honor- 

 ary Members. On January 1, 1960, there were 

 1,385 Fellows, 64 Fellows Emeriti; 187 Foreign 

 Honorary Members. Total membership 1,636. 



Meetings: Monthly, October through May. 



Professional activities: Permanent Science 

 Fund ($382,471). Cyrus M. Warren Fund 

 ($18,405), established in 1891 by the will 

 of Cyrus M. Warren. From the income, grants 

 are made for encouragement and advance- 

 ment of research in chemistry. Rumford Fund 

 ($86,819), established 1796 by Benjamin Thomp- 

 son, Count Rumford. The income is used for 

 awarding of the Rumford premium, consisting 

 of a gold and a silver medal, to authors of any 

 important discovery or useful improvement in 

 light or heat which shall have been made in any 

 part of America. It is also used to make grants- 

 in-aid of research along these lines. Francis 

 Amory Fund ($53,759), established by will of 

 Francis Amory, is to be used for a Septennial 

 Prize for outstanding work with reference to 

 alleviation or cure of diseases affecting human 

 genjto-urinary system. Publication Fund 

 ($42,887), established for publication of results 

 of research contributed by members of the 

 Academy, and other proceedings. 



Publications: Daedalus, quarterly, current 

 volume : 89, $4.50. Records annual, current vol- 

 ume : 2, $2.30. Bulletin, monthly, October-May, 

 current volume: 14, $1. Editor: Gerald Holton. 



35. American Academy of Child Psychiatry. 



President: Marion Kenworthy, 1035 5th Ave- 

 nue, New York, N. Y. Term expires 1961. 

 Secretary: Reginald S. Lourie, 2125 13th 

 Street, N. W., Washington 9, D. C. Term 

 expires 1961. 



History: Organized February 22, 1953. 



Purpose: To provide a forum for free and full 

 discussion of matters relevant to advancement 

 of child psychiatry; to delineate the scope of 

 practice of this specialty and to encourage recog- 

 nition of this practice among psychiatrists and 

 other members of the medical profession ; to 

 encourage and support high standards of train- 

 ing and practice ; to stimulate physicians to 

 enter this field ; to promote and advance activi- 

 ties in areas of prevention, treatment, research, 

 and teaching in child psychiatry; and to honor 

 physicians who have made considerable con- 

 tributions to this subject and activity. 



Membership: Fellows must be members of 

 American Psychiatric Association, certified by 

 American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology 

 in psychiatry, or eligible to take examination of 

 this Board. Associates must be physicians not 

 eligible for Fellowship, but who have made out- 

 standing contributions in child psychiatry. 

 Membership by invitation. Total membership 

 196. 



Meetings: Semiannual. 



Publications: Journal, quarterly. 



36. American Academy of Compensation Medi- 

 cine, Inc. 221 West 57th Street, New York 

 19, N. Y. President: Donald A. Covalt, 400 

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

 expires May 1961. Secretary: William T. 

 Foley, 441 East 68th Street, New York 21, 

 N. Y. Term expires May 1961. 



History: Organized and incorporated June 22, 

 1946. 



Purpose: To establish standards of practice 

 and to promote education and research in work- 

 men's compensation and industrial medicine ; to 

 encourage, foster, and promote advancement of 

 medicine and surgery in relation to industrial 

 medicine; to develop medical criteria for the 

 determination of causal relationship between in- 

 jury, disease, and disability; to serve as a forum 

 for exchange of ideas and discussion of problems. 



Membership: Fellows, 209, licensed physicians 

 who are members of their county and state 

 medical societies and the American Medical 

 Association and who are diplomates in a spe- 

 cialty, or Fellows of the American College of 

 Surgeons, or Fellows of the American Col- 

 lege of Physicians, or who have special qualifica- 

 tions acceptable to the Board of Governors ; 

 Associate Fellows, 6, licensed physicians whose 

 training and qualifications indicate meeting re- 

 quirements for fellowship within five years ; 

 Members, licensed physicians in good standing. 

 Total membership 225. 



Meetings: Annual. 



Professional activities: Postgraduate courses 

 are held in cooperation with New York Uni- 

 versity Post-Graduate Medical School and with 

 other postgraduate medical schools by invita- 

 tion ; lectures with county medical societies. 



Publications: Compensation Medicine, quar- 

 terly, current volume: 11, domestic $5, foreign 

 $7. Editor: Samuel M. Peck. 



37. American Academy of Dental Medicine. 



President: Hermann Becks, University of 

 California Medical Center, San Francisco, 

 Calif. Term expires June 1961. Secretary: 

 George F. Clarke, 554 Franklin Street, Mel- 

 rose, Mass. Term expires June 1961. 



