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five Secretary: August Howard, 98-20 62nd 

 Drive, Rego Park 74, N. Y. Term expires 

 December 1960. 



History: Organized November 1934 to band 

 together persons interested in the polar regions. 



Purpose: To organize as a permanent group 

 individuals interested in the history and explor- 

 ation of the Arctic and Antarctic Regions ; to 

 act as a clearinghouse of polar information ; to 

 be of aid to organizers and members of polar 

 expeditions ; and to spread knowledge of the 

 polar regions. 



Membership: Open to all persons, institutions, 

 and groups interested in the history and explor- 

 ation of the polar regions. Total membership 

 1,880. 



Meetings: Only regional meetings. 



Professional activities: Honorary membership 

 — Society's highest award. 



Publications: The Polar Times, semiannual, 

 current volume : 50, $.50 each. Editor : August 

 Howard. 



264. American Pomological Society. Depart- 

 ment of Horticulture, Michigan State Univer- 

 sity, East Lansing, Mich. President: Paul 

 Shepard, Superintendent, Missouri State Fruit 

 Experiment Station, Mountain Grove, Mo. 

 Term expires December 1960. Rxecittive 

 Secretary: George M. Kessler. Term in- 

 definite. 



History: Organized October 10, 1848 at an 

 American Congress of Fruit Growers represent- 

 ing horticultural societies from Massachusetts, 

 Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Connecticut. 

 United with North American Pomological Con- 

 gress in 1850. Committees: Plant Material 

 Exchange — Tree and Small Fruits ; Variety 

 Nomenclature and Appraisal ; Fruit Gardens ; 

 True-to-Name Nursery Stock ; Variety Arbitra- 

 tion. 



Purpose: To evaluate fruits, prevent dupli- 

 cation and misnaming of fruit varieties; to 

 gather and disseminate pomological information 

 with emphasis on varieties ; to promote variety 

 improvement. 



Membership: Individual, 270; Individual life, 

 98; Affiliated Societies. 9; Industrial, 12. Total 

 membership 389. Members must have an interest 

 in furthering the fruit industry and fruit garden- 

 ing through fruit variety improvement. 



Meetings: Annual. 



Professional actiz'ities: Marshall P. Wilder 

 Medal ; Marshall P. Wilder Certificate. Variety 

 testing in cooperation with agricultural research 

 stations. Sponsors inspection of fruit trees in 

 nurseries for trueness to name. 



Publications: Fruit Varieties and Horticul- 

 tural Digest, quarterly, current volume : 14, $2. 

 Editor : George M. Kessler. 



265. American Proctologic Society. 7815 East 

 Jefferson Avenue, Detroit 14, Mich. Presi- 

 dent: Walter A. Fansler, 1829 Medical Arts 

 Building, Minneapolis 2, Minn. Term expires 

 June 190l. Secretary: Norman D. Nigro. 

 Term expires June 1961. 



History: Organized 1899; incorporated. 



Purpose: To facilitate the dissemination and 

 investigation of knowledge relating to the colon, 

 rectum, and anus. 



Membership: Individuals with practice limited 

 to colon and rectal surgery ; diplomates of the 

 American Board of Colon and Rectal Surgery. 

 Affiliate Members, 216; Associate Fellows, 277; 

 Fellows, 165; Senior Fellows, 23; Honorary 

 Associates, 5 ; Honorary Fellows, 16. Total 

 membership 702. 



Meetings: Annual. 



Professional activities: American Proctologic 

 Society Research Foundation, to further proc- 

 tologic research ; seven awards for research 

 and outstanding papers. 



Publications: Diseases of the Colon and 

 Rectum, bimonthly, current volume : 3, $12. 

 Editor : Louis A. Buie. 



266. American Protestant Hospital Association. 



840 North Lake Shore Drive, Room 640, 

 Chicago 11, 111. President: Frank R. Bradley, 

 Director, Barnes Hospital, St. Louis, Mo. 

 Term expires I'ebruary 1961. Executive Dir- 

 ector: Leo M. Lyons. Term indefinite. 



History: Organized September 12, 1921 ; in- 

 corporated January 3, 1924. 



Purpose: To establish cooperation between 

 the Protestant hospitals of the country ; to 

 create and stimulate interest in hospitals in the 

 different church bodies ; to promote efficiency 

 and a right spirit of Christian service and 

 ethics in hospitals and schools of nursing ; to 

 secure Christian nurses for Christian hospitals ; 

 to emphasize the religious spirit in hospitals and 

 the work of the full-time chaplain in the 

 Christian institutions. 



Membership: Institutional: any Protestant 

 hospital or any nonprofit hospital association 

 adhering in principle to the Protestant heritage, 

 organized for the promotion of public health 

 or for the care or treatment of the sick or 

 injured. Personal: any person who is a trustee 

 or administrator or assistant administrator 

 or a chaplain of a Protestant or nonprofit hos- 

 pital, or a Protestant active in the hospital field 

 ar.d interested in and sympathetic with the aims 



