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Publications: Metal Progress, monthly, cur- 

 rent volume : 77, $9. Editor : E. E. Thum. Metals 

 Review, monthly, current volume: ZZ, $6. 

 Editor: T. C. DuMond. Transactions, annual, 

 current volume : 52, $10. Review of Metal 

 Literature, monthly, current volume: 17. Metals 

 Handbook. 



Library: 4,000 volumes. Subject emphasis, 

 metals. 



292. American Society for Pharmacology and 

 Experimental Therapeutics, Inc. 9650 Wis- 

 consin Avenue, Washington 14, D. C. 

 President: Alfred Gilman, Albert Einstein 

 College of Medicine, New York 61, N. Y. 

 Term expires June 30, 1961. Executive Sec- 

 retary: Karl H. Beyer, Merck Sharp & 

 Dohme Research Laboratories, West Point, 

 Pa. Term expires June 30, 1961. 



History: Founded December 28, 1908; incorp- 

 orated 1934. The Society is one of the six mem- 

 ber societies of the Federation of American 

 Societies for Experimental Biology. 



Purpose: To promote pharmacological knowl- 

 edge and its use among scientists and to issue 

 publications for this purpose. 



Membership: Regular, qualified investigators 

 in pharmacology, 915 ; Honorary, 2 ; Corpora- 

 tion Associates, 64. 



Meetings: Semiannual. 



Professional activities: John J. Abel Prize 

 in Pharmacology, donated by Eli Lilly and 

 Company, for the purpose of stimulating funda- 

 mental research in pharmacology in the United 

 States and Canada by a young man or woman 

 working in a college or university. Torald 

 SoUmann Award in Pharmacology, donated by 

 Wyeth Laboratories of Philadelphia, is awarded 

 for significant contemporary contribution to the 

 advancement and extension of knowledge in the 

 field of pharmacology. 



Publications: Journal of Pharmacology and 

 Experimental Therapeutics, monthly, current 

 volumes: 128, 129, 130, $10 per volume. Editor: 

 Lawrence Peters, University of Kansas Medical 

 Center, Kansas City 12, Kans. Pharmacological 

 Reviews, quarterly, current volume : 12, $10. 

 Editor : George B. Koelle, University of Penn- 

 sylvania, Philadelphia, Pa. The Pharmacologist, 

 semiannual, current volume: 2, $1 per copy. 

 Editor : Karl H. Beyer. 



293. American Society for Psychical Research, 

 Inc. 880 5th Avenue, New York 21, N. Y. 

 President: George H. Hyslop. Term expires 

 January 1961. Executive Secretary: Adele 

 Wellman. Term indefinite. 



History: Formed in 1885; later became a 

 branch of the English Society; re-established 

 as the American Society for Psychical Research 

 in 1905. 



Purpose: The investigation of telepathy, vis- 

 ions and apparitions, dowsing, monitions, pre- 

 cognition, psychokinesis (mind over matter), 

 automatic writing and other forms of auto- 

 matism, psychometry, coincidental dreams, clair- 

 voyance and clairaudience, predictions, the 

 physical phenomena of mediumship and, in 

 short, all types of "mediumistic" and unclassi- 

 fied psychological phenomena ; the collection, 

 classification, study, and publication of reports 

 dealing from first-hand acquaintance with the 

 phenomena designated above. 



Membership: Approximately 900. 



Meetings: Annual; trustees meet quarterly. 



Publications: Journal, quarterly, current vol- 

 ume : 54, $1.50 per issue, free to members. 

 Editor : Rhea White. 



Library: 6,000 volumes. 



294. American Society for Quality Control, Inc. 



161 West Wisconsin Avenue, Milwaukee 3, 

 Wis. President: J. Y. McClure, Convair, a 

 Division of General Dynamics Corporation, 

 Fort Worth, Tex. Term expires June 30, 

 1961. Administrative Secretary: William P. 

 Youngclaus, Jr. Term Indefinite. 



History: Organized and incorporated in New 

 York City on February 16, 1946. There are 

 seventeen Districts. Divisions : Administrative 

 Applications, Aircraft and Missile, Automotive, 

 Chemical, Electronics, Textile. Committees: 

 Metals Operations Research, Standards, Vendor- 

 Vendee. 



Purpose: To create, promote, and stimulate 

 interest in the advancement and diffusion of 

 knowledge of the science of quality control and 

 of its application to industrial processes. 



Membership: Members, 8,500, at least twenty- 

 one years of age and of good character, grad- 

 uates in an engineering, science, mathematics, or 

 statistics curriculum of an educational institution 

 approved by the Board of Directors, or having 

 equivalent attainments including at least four 

 years of increasingly important experience in 

 quality or inspection work or in statistical oper- 

 ations of a control or analytical nature. Assoc- 

 iates, 800, engaged in or interested in inspection 

 or quality engineering work or in an allied 

 field of industrial, administrative, or analytical 

 control. Fellows, 200, at least thirty-eight years 

 of age, engaged professionally in quality control, 

 quality engineering, or an allied field of indus- 

 trial, administrative, or analytical control, at 

 least fourteen years of active experience in the 

 profession, and having been in good standing in 



