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SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL SOCIETIES 



change of specimens, and to build up reference 

 collections of mosses, hepatics, and lichens. 



Membership : Open to individuals interested in 

 bryology. Individual members, 283 ; institutional 

 and commercial, 216; total membership 499. 



Meetings: Annual, with meeting of the Ameri- 

 can Institute of Biological Sciences. 



Professional activities: Three herbaria : moss, 

 Duke University ; hepatics. University of Cin- 

 cinnati ; lichens, University of Colorado. A moss 

 exchange is located at Syracuse University, and 

 an hepatic exchange at Millbrook, Ontario, both 

 under the direction of the Society. 



Publications: Bryologist, quarterly, current 

 volume: 63, domestic $5, foreign $5.15. Editor: 

 Howard Crum. 



128. American Cancer Society, Inc. 521 West 

 57th Street, New York 19, N. Y. President: 

 Warren H. Cole, 840 South Wood Street, 

 Chicago 13, 111. Term expires November 1, 

 1960. Executive Vice President: Lane W. 

 Adams. Term indefinite. 



History: Organized in 1913 as the American 

 Society for the Control of Cancer, and incor- 

 porated as such under New York State laws in 

 May 1922; name changed to present title in 

 1944. Sections : The Society has 60 organized 

 Divisions in all the states and the District of 

 Columbia. Technical Committees : Medical 

 and Scientific, Public Information, Research. 



Purpose: To collect, collate, and make avail- 

 able statistical information relative to the in- 

 cidence, mortality, and curability of cancer, to 

 investigate conditions under which cancer occurs, 

 to encourage and foster medical and scientific re- 

 search by others in the field of cancer, and to 

 that end voluntarily to assist, by grants of money 

 or otherwise, qualified individuals and institu- 

 tions ; to encourage and foster the education and 

 training of persons to qualify them to engage 

 in medical and scientific research in the field of 

 cancer and in detection, diagnosis, treatment, and 

 prevention of cancer and to that end to assist 

 such persons and institutions qualified so to 

 educate and train such persons, by grants of 

 money or otherwise ; to encourage, foster, and 

 conduct programs for the continuing education 

 and training of physicians, dentists, nurses, tech- 

 nicians, and others as to all matters concerned 

 with the detection, diagnosis, treatment, and 

 prevention of cancer; to encourage, foster, and 

 conduct programs for the continuing education 

 of the public concerning cancer, its symptoms 

 and detection, so as to further the timely use of 

 medically and scientifically recognized means for 

 the detection, diagnosis, treatment, and preven- 

 tion of cancer ; to encourage and foster the 

 establishment, and voluntarily to assist financially 

 and otherwise the equipment, maintenance, and 



operation of hospitals, clinics, laboratories, and 

 other facilities for the detection, diagnosis, 

 treatment, and prevention of cancer ; to encour- 

 age, foster, and voluntarily assist financially and 

 otherwise the establishment and carrying out of 

 a program of service to cancer patients ; volun- 

 tarily to assist and cooperate with medical and 

 scientific societies and other official and non- 

 official organizations interested in cancer any- 

 where in the world; to encourage international 

 cooperation in connection with the study and 

 control of cancer ; to carry on any other activi- 

 ties which may contribute to the control of 

 cancer, except the actual treatment of cancer 

 patients or the actual ownership and operation 

 of hospitals, clinics, laboratories, or other facili- 

 ties for the detection, diagnosis, treatment and 

 prevention of cancer within such limitations as 

 are provided by law. 



Membership: Membership of the Society pro- 

 vides for two delegate members from each Di- 

 vision and the Board of Directors. There is also 

 provision for honorary life members. 



Meetings: Annual. 



Professional activities: The Society makes 

 grants for research and for personnel for re- 

 search. The final authority for making grants 

 is vested in the Society's Board of Directors or 

 its Executive Committee, acting upon the recom- 

 mendations of the Research Committee of the 

 Board, the Research Advisory Council, and 

 appropriate advisory committees. 



The Research Committee is a standing com- 

 mittee of the Board of Directors and is respon- 

 sible for : (a) developing plans for carrying 

 out the research objectives of the Society; (b) 

 setting the broad policies of the programs; (c) 

 administering the program; (d) evaluating its 

 results; (e) rendering reports on activities and 

 progress ; (f ) providing prompt and full dis- 

 semination of knowledge gained; (g) appoint- 

 ing from time to time policy advisory commit- 

 tees of experts in the field of medical and scien- 

 tific research to advise it on specific problems 

 and undertake such other activities as it may 

 consider necessary or desirable in carrying out 

 its responsibilities. 



The Research Advisory Council is composed 

 of fifteen investigators representing the various 

 scientific disciplines and administrative skills 

 concerned with present day cancer research and 

 is responsible for : (a) examining the progress 

 and needs of all research on cancer; (b) recom- 

 mending appointment of standing and, where 

 needed, special scientific advisory committees ; 

 (c) reviewing recommendations of all such 

 committees. 



Standing scientific advisory committees are : 

 Research on the Etiology of Cancer, Research 

 on the Pathogenesis of Cancer, Research on the 

 Therapy of Cancer, Institutional Research 



