UNITED STATES 



107 



2, 1916; incorporated (Washington, D. C.) 

 1950. Divisions: Western, Southeastern. 



Purpose: To promote the study of cold- 

 blooded vertebrates. 



Membership: Anyone who is interested in the 

 study of cold-blooded vertebrates or in the 

 general fields of vertebrate zoology, ecology, 

 evolution, physiology, morphology, etc. Active 

 members, Foreign, Honorary, Life, Honorary 

 Foreign. Total membership 1,115. 



Meetings: Annual. 



Professional acfiz'ities: Endowment Fund, 

 used to print special articles or illustrations ; 

 Revolving Research Fund, used for interest- 

 free loans to foster research ; Special Gift 

 Fund, accumulating only during the life time of 

 the donor, about $3,000 ; prizes of $25 and $15 

 each given at the annual meeting for the best 

 student papers in ichthyology, and two similar 

 prizes in herpetology. 



Publications: Copeia, quarterly, volumes are 

 unnumbered, $8 domestic, $6 foreign. Managing 

 Editor : David L. Jameson, Biology Depart- 

 ment, San Diego State College, San Diego, Calif. 



319. American Society of Internal Medicine. 350 



Post Street, San Francisco 8, Calif. Presi- 

 dent: Stewart P. Seigle, 85 Jefferson Street, 

 Hartford, Conn. Term expires May 4, 1961. 

 Executive Director: G. Tod Bates. Term 

 indefinite. 



History: Founded April 15, 1956 in Los 

 Angeles, Calif. ; close liaison with the American 

 College of Physicians ; federation of forty-seven 

 component societies. Standing and Special 

 Committees : Bylaws, Finance, Legislature, 

 Medical Services, Membership, Public Rela- 

 tions, Annual Meeting and Credentials, Liaison 

 with American College of Physicians, Labor 

 Relations and Secretaries Advisory. 



Purpose: To create a federation of State, Dis- 

 trict of Columbia, United States Territorial, 

 United States Commonwealth, and Canadian 

 Provincial societies of qualified internists for 

 the coordination of their efforts in furthering 

 the practice of internal medicine ; to study the 

 scientific, economic, social, and political aspects 

 of medicine at a national level in order to 

 secure and maintain the best patient care and 

 the highest standard of practice in internal 

 medicine ; to encourage the development of 

 strong State, District of Columbia, United States 

 Territorial, United States Commonwealth, and 

 Canadian Provincial societies of internal medi- 

 cine; to complement and supplement the aims 

 and activities of The American College of 

 Physicians. 



Membership: 47 component societies with a 

 total of 6,500 members. Those State, Dis- 



trict of Columbia, United States Territorial, 

 United States Commonwealth, and Canadian 

 Provincial societies of internal medicine which 

 have applied for membership in proper form, 

 have been accepted by a two-thirds affirmative 

 vote of the Board of Trustees or House of Dele- 

 gates at any meeting or by mail ballot of the 

 Delegates and have agreed to the stipulations 

 of the Articles of Incorporation and Bylaws. 

 Minimum qualifications for admission to mem- 

 bership in a component Society : a physician who 

 either is certified by the American Board of 

 Internal Medicine or who is a member of the 

 American College of Physicians, or, in excep- 

 tional circumstances, a physician who has limited 

 his practice exclusively to internal medicine for 

 five years must, if he be graduated after 1936, 

 include credit for at least three years of ap- 

 proved hospital training suitable for accredita- 

 tion in internal medicine after internship and, 

 in addition, show evidence of at least two years 

 of exclusive practice in internal medicine, and 

 who has sufficient training, experience, and 

 ethical qualities, limits his practice to internal 

 medicine and who is recognized in his com- 

 munity as a specialist in internal medicine. 



Meetings: Annual. 



Publications: Newsbulletin, bi-monthly. Edi- 

 tor : G. Tod Bates. 



320. American Society of Landscape Architects, 



Inc. 9 Park Street, Boston 8, Mass. Presi- 

 dent: Norman T. Newton, Robinson Hall, 

 Cambridge 38, Mass. Term expires 1961. 

 Secretary: Eldridge Lovelace, 317 North 11th 

 Street, St. Louis 1, Mo. 



History: Organized 1899; incorporated 1916. 

 Chapters : Boston, Chicago, Connecticut, Flo- 

 rida, Hawaii, Kentucky-Ohio, Michigan, Mis- 

 souri Valley, New York, Northern California, 

 Pacific Northwest, Pennsylvania, Potomac, 

 Rocky Mountain, Southeastern, Southern Cali- 

 fornia, Southwest, Upstate New York. Com- 

 mittees : City and Regional Parks and Play- 

 grounds ; City, Regional, and National Plan- 

 ning ; Civil Service ; National and State Parks 

 and Forests ; Public Roads, Controlled-Access 

 Highways, and Parkways ; Professional Ser- 

 vice ; Education ; Housing ; National Capital ; 

 Research. 



Purpose: The advancement of education and 

 skill in the art of landscape architecture as an 

 instrument of service in the public welfare. 



Membership: Members, 848, satisfactory pro- 

 fessional qualifications ; Associates, 567, less 

 experienced recent graduates ; Fellows, 108, 

 Landscape Architects who have made an out- 

 standing contribution ; Honorary, 24, distin- 

 guished persons who have performed notable 

 service ; Corresponding, 9, distinguished foreign 



