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History: Organized and incorporated 1899. 

 Sections : New England ; New York ; Ohio ; 

 Southeastern. Divisions : Chemical Physics ; 

 Electron Physics ; Fluid Dynamics ; High-Poly- 

 mer Physics ; Plasma Physics ; Solid State 

 Physics. 



Purpose: The advancement and diffusion of 

 the knowledge of physics. 



Membership: Total members, 16,000, individ- 

 uals having an interest in physics ; Fellows, 

 about 1,700. 



Meetings: Annual meeting in January in New 

 York; six to eight other meetings each year. 



Professional activities: Oliver Ellsworth 

 Buckley Prize, for solid state physics, awarded 

 annually. Capital fund, $50,000, donated by 

 Bell Telephone Laboratories. Dannie Heinemann 

 Prize for work in mathematical physics, sup- 

 ported by Heinemann Foundation. American 

 Physical Society Prize endowed by Hughes 

 Aircraft Company, for contributions by phys- 

 icists under age of thirty-three. 



Publications: Bulletin, six to eight per year, 

 $5. Physical Review, semimonthly, ser. 2, cur- 

 rent volume : 120, $40. Editor : S. A. Goudsmit. 

 Review of Modern Physics, quarterly, current 

 volume : 32, $6. Editor : E. U. Condon. 



258. American Physical Therapy Association. 



1790 Broadway, New York 19, N. Y. Presi- 

 dent: Agnes P. Snyder, 162 Davis Court, 

 San Antonio, Tex. Term expires June 1961. 

 Executive Secretary: Lucy Blair. Term in- 

 definite. 



History: Founded 1921 as the American 

 \\'omen's Therapeutic Association ; name chan- 

 ged 1922 to American Physiotherapy Associa- 

 tion ; incorporated as a nonprofit organization 

 in the State of Illinois in 1930; name changed to 

 present title 1948. Fifty-eight chapters through- 

 out the United States and Puerto Rico ; forty- 

 eight districts within the chapters; 106 total 

 organizational units. 



Purpose: To foster the development and 

 improvement of physical therapy service and 

 physical therapy education through the coordin- 

 ated action of physical therapists, allied pro- 

 fessional groups, citizens, agencies, and schools 

 to the end that the physical therapy needs of 

 the people will be met. 



Membership: Active members, graduates of 

 programs approved by the Council on Medical 

 Education and Hospitals of the American Med- 

 ical Association, and foreign nationals who are 

 affiliated with a member organization of the 

 World Confederation for Physical Therapy and 

 who fulfill other requirements as determined 

 by the Board of Directors ; Inactive, those who 

 are no longer actively engaged in tlie practice 



of physical therapy but who wish to maintain 

 affiliation ; Life, those who upon retirement have 

 been active members for thirty years or those 

 who have completed twenty years as active 

 members and reached sixty-five years of age 

 at time of retirement; Student, persons in 

 approved programs ; Associate, nominated by a 

 chapter and approved by the Board; Honorary, 

 elected by the House of Delegates upon unani- 

 mous nomination of the Board of Directors. 

 Active, 6,198; Inactive, 2,095; Life, 86; Student, 

 785 ; Associate, 40 ; Honorary, 7. Total member- 

 ship 9,211. 



Meetings: Annual. 



Professional activities: Cooperation with 

 other organizations in providing for scholar- 

 ship assistance for undergraduate and postgrad- 

 uate work in physical therapy ; awards presented 

 in the form of honorary membership or citations 

 to individuals for outstanding participation in 

 matters pertaining to the growth of the pro- 

 fession of physical therapy and services con- 

 tributing to the prevention or amelioration of 

 disabilities in mankind. The Association pro- 

 moted the founding of the Physical Therapy 

 Fund, Inc., a tax-exempt organization dedicated 

 to providing grants to carry out research 

 projects and programs to improve the art and 

 science of physical therapy. 



Publications: The Physical Therapy Review, 

 monthly, current volume : 40, $7 to nonmembers ; 

 $8 foreign. Editor: Dorothy E. Voss. 



259. American Physiological Society. 9650 Wis- 

 consin Avenue, Washington 14, D. C. Presi- 

 dent: Julius H. Comroe, Jr., University of 

 California Medical Center, San Francisco 22, 

 Calif. Term expires July 1, 1961. Executive 

 Secretary: Ray G. Daggs. Term indefinite. 



History: Founded December 30, 1887; incorp- 

 orated June 2, 1923. The oldest and one of the 

 founding societies of the Federation of Ameri- 

 can Societies for Experimental Biology (found- 

 ed 1913). The APS is also a founding member 

 of the American Institute of Biological Sciences. 

 Committees : Education ; Use and Care of 

 Animals ; Placement of Senior Physiologists ; 

 Porter Fellowship ; Program Advisory ; Inter- 

 national Physiology. The Board of Publications 

 Trustees, appointed by the Council, control all 

 activities concerned with Society publications. 



Purpose: To promote the increase of physio- 

 logical knowledge and its utilization. 



Membership: Active members, professional 

 physiologists with one or more years of post- 

 doctoral work and with continued active interest 

 in research as evidenced by the conduction and 

 publication of meritorious original research in 

 physiology and/or biophysics, residents of North 

 America ; Associate, advanced graduate students, 



