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SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL SOCIETIES 



industry to a better appreciation of the impor- 

 tance of trained bakery production superin- 

 tendents ; by setting standards of education and 

 training which will bring to bakery production 

 superintendents the recognition to which they 

 are entitled as engineers. 



Membership: Open to all who are engaged 

 in bakery production or engineering work, and 

 to all those whose interests touch bakery pro- 

 duction problems ; by recommendation of two 

 members in good standing. Total membership 

 3,100. 



Meetings: Annual. 



Professional activities: Exchange Student 

 Program sponsored jointly with British Chapter 

 Affiliate ; sponsorship, with other industry 

 groups, of the Baking Industry Sanitation Com- 

 mittee. 



Publications: Annual Proceedings. Technical 

 bulletins to membership only. 



305. American Society of Biological Chemists, 

 Inc. President: Fritz Lipmann, Rockefeller 

 Institute, New York, N. Y. Term expires 

 June 30, 1961. Secretary: Frank W. Putnam, 

 Department of Biochemistry, College of Medi- 

 cine, University of Florida, Gainesville, Fla. 

 Term expires June 30, 1961. 



History: Organized December 26, 1906, in- 

 corporated September 12, 1919. 



Purpose: To further the extension of bio- 

 chemical knowledge and to facilitate personal 

 intercourse between American investigators in 

 biological chemistry. 



Membership: Qualified investigators who have 

 conducted and published meritorious original 

 investigations in biological chemistry. Total 

 membership 1,666. 



Meetings: Annual, with the Federation of 

 American Societies for Experimental Biology. 



Professional activities: Travel Fund, to sup- 

 port travel of younger biochemists to inter- 

 national biochemical congresses ; amount varies. 



Publications: Journal of Biological Chemistry, 

 monthly, current volume : 235, $45. Editor : 

 John T. Edsall, Harvard University Biological 

 Laboratories, Cambridge, Mass. 



306. American Society of Body Engineers. 100 



Farnsworth Street, Detroit 2, Mich. Presi- 

 dent: R. L. Logue, 8 Cherry Hill Court, Dear- 

 born 7, Mich. Term expires February 1961. 

 Secretary: Dale K. Pettry, 15476 Vaughan 

 Street, Detroit 23, Mich. Term expires Feb- 

 ruary 1961. 



History: Established 1945. Has expanded its 

 scope from a local organization to include re- 

 ciprocal agreements with similar foreign organ- 

 izations, and has many foreign members. 



Purpose: To advance the profession of body 

 engineering, its allied arts and sciences. 



Membership: Regular Member, a person who 

 has attained his 21st birthday, and who is either 

 a graduate of a school legally authorized to con- 

 fer a bachelor's degree in engineering, or the 

 allied arts and sciences ; or who through prac- 

 tical experience has acquired an equivalent 

 technical knowledge ; or who has regularly en- 

 gaged in the direction or prosecution of engineer- 

 ing or the allied arts and sciences, as related to 

 body engineering. Resident Member is a member 

 in good standing in the Engineering Society of 

 Detroit. Associate Member, a person who is a 

 graduate of a school legally authorized to con- 

 fer a bachelor's degree in engineering or the 

 allied arts and sciences in the field of, or closely 

 identified with, body engineering. Regular Resi- 

 dent Members, 400; Regular Non-Resident 

 Members, 50 ; Associate Resident Members, 40 ; 

 Associate Non-Resident Members, 10. Total 

 membership 500. 



Meetings: Monthly, except summer months. 



Professional activities: Annual Technical 

 Convention, regular educational counselling, 

 Annual High School Drafting Contest. 



Library: 10,000 volumes on general engineer- 

 ing. 



307. American Society of Brevi^ing Chemists, 

 Inc. President: George E. Bredt, 9400 Quincy 

 Avenue, Cleveland 6, Ohio. Term expires 

 May 3, 1961. Executive Secretary: B. A. 

 Burkhart, P. O. Box 2146, Madison 5, Wis. 

 Term indefinite. 



History: Organized as the Malt Analysis 

 Standardization Committee ; incorporated in 

 Illinois, December 1935, under the present title. 



Purpose: To study, develop, and adopt uni- 

 form or standard methods for the analysis of 

 raw materials, supplies, and products of brew- 

 ing, malting, and related industries ; to secure 

 uniformity in the statement of analytical re- 

 sults ; to conduct, promote, and encourage scien- 

 tific and technical research in brewing and re- 

 lated industries ; to promote the spirit of scien- 

 tific cooperation among all workers in the 

 field of the industries concerned ; to maintain 

 high professional standards as requirements for 

 membership in the Society ; to encourage a more 

 general recognition of the chemist and biologist 

 as essential factors in the development of the 

 brewing and related industries ; and to com- 

 municate and cooperate with other organizations 

 having similar or kindred purposes. 



Membership: Active members, 580, bachelor's 

 degree in chemistry, chemical engineering, or 

 the biological sciences and actively engaged in 

 brewing or related industries ; Associate, 200, 

 engaged in work related to brewing or related 



