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SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL SOCIETIES 



carry on important research or design in 

 engineering field ; or, if not such a graduate, has 

 equivalent attainments including at least twelve 

 years active practice in the professions of engi- 

 neering or teaching or both, of which five years 

 has been spent in responsible charge of such 

 teaching or engineering work, all of a character 

 satisfactory to the Board of Directors. A license 

 to practice professional engineering issued by 

 a legally authorized body whose requirements 

 as to education and active practice are consid- 

 ered satisfactory and adequate by the Board of 

 Directors may be considered equivalent to 50 

 per cent of active practice requirements. Asso- 

 ciate Member, 6,861 (over 30), 931 (under 30), 

 a graduate of an engineering curriculum accred- 

 ited by the Board of Directors, or approved by 

 the Board of Directors, or equivalent attain- 

 ments including at least eight years of engineer- 

 ing experience, all of a character satisfactory to 

 Board of Directors. Affiliate, 3,376, experience 

 in technical matters, design, operation, or 

 maintenance in heating, refrigerating, air con- 

 ditioning, or ventilating fields, or an interest 

 in the advancement of the Society's aims, with 

 sufficient qualifications to cooperate with heat- 

 ing, refrigerating, air conditioning, or ventilat- 

 ing engineers in the advancement of knowledge. 

 Student, 405, a person matriculated in a degree- 

 granting or graduate school with a curriculum 

 accredited by the Engineers Council for Pro- 

 fessional Development, or the Engineering In- 

 stitute of Canada, or in a school with a cur- 

 riculum recommended by the Education Com- 

 mittee and approved by the Board of Directors, 

 and pursuing a course of study in preparation 

 for the engineering profession. 



Professional activities: A research laboratory 

 is maintained in Cleveland, Ohio, with a staff 

 of approximately twenty persons, which coop- 

 erates with universities, colleges, and other 

 organizations in programs of research in areas 

 of interest to the Society; F. Paul Anderson 

 Award Medal, awarded to a member of the 

 Society in recognition of outstanding work done 

 or services performed in field of heating, re- 

 frigerating, and air conditioning. Other awards 

 are made relating to papers published in So- 

 ciety's Journal ; several other awards of specific 

 purpose and aim. 



Publications: Journal, monthly, current vol- 

 ume : 2, $5. Editor : E. R. Searles. Guide, an- 

 nual, current volume: 38, $12. Editor: C. H. 

 Flink. 



316. American Society of Hospital Pharmacists. 



2215 Connecticut Avenue, N. W., Washington 

 7, D. C. President: Clifton J. Latiolais, Ohio 

 State University Health Center, Columbus 10, 

 Ohio. Term expires April 1961. Executive 



Secretary: Joseph A. Oddis. Term expires 

 spring 1963. 



History: Organized 1942; affiliate, American 

 Pharmaceutical Association ; associate, Ameri- 

 can Association for the Advancement of Sci- 

 ence. Fifty-four chapters. 



Purpose: To improve qualifications and use- 

 fulness of hospital pharmacists ; to assist in pro- 

 viding future supply of these specialists ; to 

 promote research in hospital pharmacy practices, 

 and in all pharmaceutical problems ; to increase 

 dissemination of pharmaceutical knowledge by 

 interchange of information. 



Membership: Open to members, American 

 Pharmaceutical Association, providing periods 

 of membership coincide. Total membership 

 3,300. 



Meetings: Annual. 



Professional activities: Whitney Spease 

 Award ; H. A. K. Whitney Lecture Award ; 

 funds for research grants ; institutes on hos- 

 pital pharmacy ; cooperation with American 

 Pharmaceutical Association in maintenance of 

 Division of Hospital Pharmacy. 



Publications: American Journal of Hospital 

 Pharmacy, monthly, current volume : 17, $4.50. 

 Editor : Don E. Francke. 



317. American Society of Human Genetics. 



President: L. C. Dunn, Columbia University, 

 Department of Zoology, New York, N. Y. 

 Term expires December 31, 1961. Executive 

 Secretary: W. J. Schull, Department of Hu- 

 man Genetics, 1133 East Catherine Street, 

 Ann Arbor, Mich. Term expires December 31, 

 1962. 



History: Organized 1948. 



Purpose: To advance the science of human 

 genetics. 



Membership: 650, active in the field of human 

 genetics ; nomination by two active members. 



Meetings: Annual. 



Publications: American Journal of Human 

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

 Editor : Arthur G. Steinberg, Department of 

 Biology, Western Reserve University, Cleve- 

 land 6, Ohio. 



318. American Society of Ichthyologists and 

 Herpetologists. Biology Department, San 

 Fernando Valley State College, Northridge, 

 Calif. President: George A. Moore, Okla- 

 homa State University, Stillwater, Okla. Term 

 expires December 31, 1961. Secretary: James 

 A. Peters. Term expires December 31, 1961. 



History: Founded February 1916 as the 

 American Society for the Study of Fish and 

 Reptiles ; name changed to present title March 



