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SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL SOCIETIES 



Purpose: Promotion and improvement of rail- 

 way surgery. 



Membership: Active members, degree of doc- 

 tor of medicine, membership in American or 

 Canadian Medical Associations, and professional 

 activity in some phase of medicine or surgery for 

 the railroad industry. Total membership 3,100. 



Meetings: Annual. 



Publications: Industrial Medicine and Sur- 

 gery, monthly, current volume : 29, free to mem- 

 bers. Editor: Carey P. McCord, 605 North 

 Michigan Avenue, Chicago, 111. 



106. American Association of State Highway 

 Officials. 917 National Press Building, Wash- 

 ington 4, D. C. President: David H. Stevens, 

 Chairman, State Highway Commission of 

 Maine, Augusta, Me. Term expires December 

 2, 1960. Executive Secretary: A. E. Johnson. 

 Term indefinite. 



History: Founded 1914. Organized in four 

 sections by geographical regions. Committee : 

 Standards. 



Purpose: To foster the development, opera- 

 tion, and maintenance of a nation-wide integrated 

 system of highways to serve adequately the 

 transportation needs of the country. 



Membership: Membership is by Highway De- 

 partment. Full-time employees of a member 

 department are termed active members. Member 

 departments, 53. 



Meetings: Annual. 



Professional activities: George Bartlett 

 Award, given in cooperation with the American 

 Road Builders' Association and the Highway 

 Research Board, to some individual who has 

 made an outstanding contribution to highway 

 progress. Twenty-Five Year Award of Merit, 

 given to employees nominated by the Chief 

 Administrative Officer of the member Depart- 

 ments, who have completed twenty-five years of 

 service. Thomas H. MacDonald Award, to a 

 person having been employed by one or more 

 member organizations of the Association for a 

 period of at least five years who has rendered 

 continuous outstanding service over an extended 

 period of time or has made some exceptional con- 

 tribution to the art and science of highway 

 engineering. 



Publications: American Highways, quarterly, 

 current volume : 39, domestic $2, foreign, $3. 

 Editor : A. E. Johnson. 



107. American Association of Texile Chemists 

 and Colorists. Executive Secretary: George 

 P. Paine. AATCC National Headquarters, 

 P. O. Box 28, Lowell, Mass. Term permanent. 



History: Organized November, 1921 : incor- 

 porated (Massachusetts) 1929. Sections: 



Northern New England ; Rhode Island ; West- 

 ern New England ; Metropolitan New York ; 

 Hudson-Mohawk ; Western New York ; Dela- 

 ware A^alley ; Washington ; Piedmont ; South Cen- 

 tral : Southeast : Midwest ; Pacific Northwest : 

 Pacific Southwest. Student Chapters : Lowell 

 Technological Institute ; Philadelphia Textile 

 Institute ; North Carolina State College ; 

 New Bedford Institute of Textiles and Tech- 

 nology : Auburn University ; Georgia Institute 

 of Technology : Clcmson College ; Bradford 

 Durfee Technical Institute. Committee : Re- 

 search. 



Purpose : To promote the increase of knowledge 

 of the application of dyes and chemicals in the 

 textile industry ; to encourage in any practical 

 way research work on chemical processes and 

 materials of importance to the textile industry : 

 to establish for the members channels by which 

 interchange of professional knowledge among 

 them may be increased. 



Membership: Senior members, twenty-six 

 years or over and with five years experience in 

 the industry ; Junior members, lacking the re- 

 quired years but connected with the industry ; 

 Associate members ; Student members, enrolled 

 in a course of study leading to Senior require- 

 ments ; Corporation members, supporting the 

 research of the Association. Senior, 5765 ; 

 Junior, 153; Associate, 928; Student, 172; Cor- 

 porations, 298. Total membership 7316. 



Meetings: Annual general meetings; section 

 meetings. 



Professional activities: Olney Medal, awarded 

 annually for achievement in textile chemistry; 

 American Dyestuiif Reporter Award, annual, 

 $200. for published paper. 



Publications: .\merican DyestufiF Reporter, 

 fortnightly, free to members. Technical Manual, 

 $6.50, free to members. 



Library: 2,000 volumes. 



108. American Association of Variable Star 

 Observers. 4 Brattle Street, Cambridge 38, 

 Mass. President: Ralph N. Buckstaflf, 2119 

 Main Street, Oshkosh, Wis. Term expires 

 October 1960. Director: Mrs. Margaret W. 

 Mayall. Term indefinite. Execntive Secretary: 

 Clinton B. Ford, Loomis Road, Suffield, Conn. 

 Term indefinite. 



History: Organized in 1911, incorporated in 

 1917. Committees and Divisions: Nova Search, 

 Occultations, Photoelectric Photometry, Solar. 



Purpose: To promote the study of variable 

 stars, astronomy, and kindred subjects. 



Membership: Annual, 380; Students, under 

 twenty-one years of age ; honorary, 8, outstand- 

 ing service to the Association; Patron, 2; Sus- 

 taining, 39 ; Life, 61 ; Library and Observatory 



