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Membership: Interest in mammalogy and 

 nomination by two members. Annual, Honorary, 

 Life, Emeritus. Total membership 1,765. 



Meetings : Annual. 



Professional activities: Two $100 competi- 

 tive honor awards each year for predoctoral re- 

 search papers. One of these is designated the 

 A. B. Howell Award. 



Publications: Journal of Mammalogy, quar- 

 terly, current volume: 41, $7. Editor: R. H. 

 Manville. 



324. American Society of Maxillofacial Sur- 

 geons. P. O. Box 20068, Houston 25, Tex. 

 President: D. McCullagh Mayer, 12 East 87th 

 Street, New York 28, N. Y. Term expires 

 May 1961. Secretary-Treasurer: Edward C. 

 Hinds. Term expires May 1961. 



History: Organized and incorporated May 

 1947 in the State of Illinois. 



Purpose: To stimulate and advance knowledge 

 of the science and art of maxillofacial surgery 

 and thereby to improve and elevate the standard 

 of practice of this specialty. 



Membership: Active, 69, limited to those 

 candidates who have successfully completed all 

 work for the degree of doctor of medicine and 

 doctor of dental surgery and who shall have 

 had such degrees conferred, fully qualified in 

 maxillofacial surgery, with at least five years 

 of acceptable and recognized graduate training 

 and at least two years' practice of this specialty ; 

 Senior, 7 ; Honorary, 1 ; Foreign, 3. Total 

 membership 80. 



Meetings: Annual. 



Professional activities: Essay contest. 



325. American Society of Mechanical Engineers. 



29 West 39th Street, New York 18, N. Y. 

 President: Walker L. Cisler. Term expires 

 November 28, 1960. Secretary: O. B. Schier 

 II. Term expires 1961. 



History: Organized 1880; incorporated 1881. 

 There are ninety-six Sections (one in Canada 

 and one in Mexico). Divisions: Applied Me- 

 chanics, Aviation, Fuels, Gas Turbine Power, 

 Heat Transfer, Hydraulic, Instruments and 

 Regulators, Lubrication, Machine Design, Main- 

 tenance and Plant Engineering, Management, 

 Materials Handling, Metals Engineering, Nu- 

 clear Engineering, Oil and Gas Power, Petro- 

 leum, Power, Process Industries, Production 

 Engineering, Railroad, Rubber and Plastics, 

 Safety, Textile Engineering, and Wood Indus- 

 tries. 



Purpose: To promote the art and science of 

 mechanical engineering and the allied arts and 

 sciences ; to encourage original research ; to 



foster engineering education; to advance the 

 standards of engineering; to promote the inter- 

 course of engineers among themselves and with 

 allied technologists; and severally and in co- 

 operation with other engineering and technical 

 societies to broaden the usefulness of the 

 engineering profession. 



Membership : Honorary, 72, distinctive accom- 

 plishment in engineering, science, industry, re- 

 search, or public service, and those allied pur- 

 suits beneficial to the engineering profession. 

 Members, 16,684, a graduate of an engineering 

 curriculum approved by the Council, and in 

 addition shall have had not less than six years 

 active practice in the profession of engineering 

 or teaching, five of which shall have been in 

 a position of responsible charge of engineering 

 work. If not such a graduate, he shall have 

 equivalent attainments, including not less than 

 twelve years active practice in the profession of 

 engineering or teaching, five years of which shall 

 have been in a position of responsible charge of 

 engineering work. Associates, 30,082, a graduate 

 of an engineering curriculum approved by the 

 Council. If not, he shall have equivalent attain- 

 ments including at least eight years of engineer- 

 ing experience of a character satisfactory to 

 the Council. Student, 11,307, a student reg- 

 ularly enrolled for and pursuing an approved 

 engineering curriculum in a school having a 

 student branch of the Society. Total member- 

 ship 47,564. 

 Meetings: Twice a year. 

 Professional activities: The Research Execu- 

 tive Committee supervises all of the research 

 activities of ASME. Under it, a Research Plan- 

 ning Committee, having representatives from 

 every technical interest in the Society, organizes, 

 fosters, reviews, and coordinates the activities 

 of the 24 Research Committees (18 active, 

 6 inactive) : Behavior of Pressure Vessel Mate- 

 rials, Boiler Feedwater Studies, Condenser 

 Tubes, Contact Fatigue of Rolling Elements, 

 Corrosion and Deposits from Combustion Gases, 

 Critical Tables, Effect of Radiation of Mate- 

 rials for Nuclear Installations, Effect of Tem- 

 perature on the Properties of Metals, Flow of 

 Bulk Materials, Fluid Meters, Furnace Per- 

 formance Factors, High Temperature Steam 

 Generation, Lubrication, Mechanical Pressure 

 Elements, Plastic Flow of Metals, Prevention 

 of Fracture in Metals, Properties of Steam, 

 and Random Vibration. Each of these commit- 

 tees directs and supervises the investigation, col- 

 lection, tabulation, and correlation of existing 

 data and information in its field, and when the 

 need is sufficient to warrant research, it plans 

 and directs technical programs which are con- 

 ducted under contract at various colleges, uni- 

 versities, and other organizations having labora- 

 tories for cooperative research work. The cost 



