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SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL SOCIETIES 



$108,000, the proceeds from which are granted 

 as honoraria or awards to encourage investiga- 

 tion and research upon any subject relating in 

 any way to pharmacy or the collateral sciences. 

 Kilmer Fund, a trust fund, the proceeds from 

 which are used for a prize for work in phar- 

 macognosy. Centennial Fund, about $11,000, 

 the income from which is used to aid the 

 prosecution of original investigations. The Lab- 

 oratory of the Association is located at the 

 Headquarters Building in Washington, D. C, 

 Director: Samuel W. Goldstein. 



Publications: Journal: Practical Pharmacy 

 Edition, monthly, current volume: 21, $10. 

 Editor : William S. Apple. Journal : Scientific 

 Edition, monthly, current volume : 49, $15, 

 special rates to members. Editor : Justin L. 

 Powers. National Formulary, published every 

 five years, $9. Editor : Justin L. Powers. Drug 

 Standards, bimonthly, current volume : 28, $5. 

 Editor : Justin L. Powers. 



Library: 10,500 volumes in the field of phar- 

 macy. 



255. American Philosophical Association. Presi- 

 dent: Cornelius Kruse, Wesleyan University, 

 Middletown, Conn. Term expires December 

 1961. Secretary-Treasurer: Lewis E. Hahn, 

 Washington University, St. Louis 30, Mo. 

 Term expires June 1963. 



History: Originated with the Western Philo- 

 sophical Association, the present Western Divis- 

 ion, organized in 1900, now a federation com- 

 posed of three relatively autonomous Divisions : 

 Eastern, organized in 1901, Western, and Pacific, 

 organized in 1924, which hold separate annual 

 meetings. Affiliated with international philo- 

 sophical organizations ; has participated actively 

 in all international congresses of philosophy ; 

 also affiliated with the American Council of 

 Learned Societies, the American Association for 

 the Advancement of Science, the American Doc- 

 umentation Institute, and the Institut Inter- 

 national de Collaboration Philosophique. Com- 

 mittees : International Cultural Cooperation, 

 Publication, Information Service, Bibliography 

 of Philosophy, Philosophy in Education, Advan- 

 cing Original Work in Philosophy, and Carus 

 Lectures. 



Purpose: To promote a fellowship among 

 teachers of philosophy, to exchange ideas, and 

 to encourage a creative and scholarly interest. 



Membership: Full Member, limited to persons 

 whose training in philosophy has been advanced 

 and systematic enough to make them competent 

 to teach at the college or university level, and 

 persons who have published contributions, 

 whether in philosophy or in borderline fields, 

 which, in the opinion of the Executive Com- 

 mittee, are of substantial value to philosophy ; 



Associate Member, persons ineligible to full 

 membership, but whose interest or achievements 

 in philosophy are regarded by the Executive 

 Committee as warranting their affiliation with 

 the Association. Total membership 1,700. 



Meetings: Irregular. 



Publications: Proceedings and Addresses, 

 annual, current volume : 33, $2. Editor : Lewis 

 E. Hahn. 



256. American Philosophical Society. 104 South 

 5th Street, Philadelphia 6, Pa. President: 

 Henry Allen Moe. Term expires September 

 1961. Executive Officer: George W. Corner. 

 Term expires September 1961. 



History: Originated in Franklin's "Junto," 

 formed in 1727 and formally organized under 

 the name of the American Philosophical Society 

 in 1743. United January 1769, under present 

 title, with the American Society, outgrowth of 

 the old Junto, which had still maintained its 

 existence and whose views and ends were the 

 same; incorporated March 1780. 



Purpose: The promotion of useful knowledge. 



Membership: Class I, Mathematical and 

 Physical Sciences ; Class II, Geological and 

 Biological Sciences ; Class III, Social Sciences ; 

 Class IV, Humanities. Members, 500 American, 

 75 foreign. Total membership 575. 



Meetings: Semiannual. 



Professional activities: Penrose Research 

 Fund, $175,000 available in 1960 for grants-in- 

 aid for research ; Johnson Research Fund, 

 $52,000 available in 1960 for grants-in-aid; 

 Daland Fund, $27,000 available for fellowships 

 for research in clinical medicine ; Henry M. 

 Phillips Prize, awarded occasionally for 

 best essay of merit on the science and philosophy 

 of jurisprudence; John F. Lewis Prize, awarded 

 to the American citizen who shall announce at 

 any general or special meeting of the Society, 

 and publish among its papers some truth which 

 the Council of the Society shall deem worthy 

 of the award. 



Publications: Proceedings, annual, current 

 volume: 104, $5. Transactions, annual, current 

 volume: 50, $6. Memoirs, irregular, current vol- 

 ume: 50, separately priced. Year Book, $1. 

 Editor : William J. Robbins. 



Library: 115,000 volumes on history of science 

 and culture in America. 



257. American Physical Society. Columbia Uni- 

 versity, New York 27, N. Y. President: V. K. 

 Weisskopf, Massachusetts Institute of Tech- 

 nology, Cambridge 39, Mass. Term expires 

 January 1961. Executive Secretary: K. K. 

 Darrow. Term expires January 1961. 



