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ethics ; to maintain the dignity of the profession ; 

 and to foster a spirit of understanding and 

 cooperation among photogrammetrists in the 

 United States and throughout the world. 



Membership: Total membership, 3,600, any 

 person who is actively engaged in the practice 

 of photographic mapping, or who, by reason 

 of education or profession, is interested in the 

 application or development of photogrammetry. 



Meetings: Annual. 



Professional activities: Talbert Abrams 

 Award, $100 annually, to encourage recording 

 of current and historical engineering and scien- 

 tific developments in photogrammetry, given 

 to member whose article appears in Photogram- 

 metric Engineering. Photogrammetric Award, to 

 stimulate development of the art of aerial 

 photogrammetry in the United States, is given, 

 annually, to an individual member of the Society; 

 Fairchild Camera and Instrument Corporation 

 maintains this award and underwrites expenses 

 connected with it. Ford Bartlett Award, to 

 stimulate interest in the Society. Bausch and 

 Lomb Photogrammetric Award, annually, to 

 stimulate an interest in photogrammetry in 

 college students and to recognize meritorious 

 students who display outstanding ability in 

 the field: First prize, $100 plus three-year 

 paid-up membership in Society, and two $50 

 prizes plus one year membership. 



Publications: Photogrammetric Engineering, 

 quarterly, $6. Editor : T. W. Norcross. 



333. American Society of Planning Officials. 



1313 East 60th Street, Chicago 2>7, 111. Presi- 

 dent: Harold S. Shefelman, Weter, Roberts 

 and Shefelman, 1612 Northern Life Tower, 

 Seattle, Wash. Term expires May 1961. 

 Executive Director: Dennis O'Harrow. Term 

 indefinite. 



History: Organized and incorporated 1934. 



Purpose: To improve standards and tech- 

 niques ; to promote efficiency in the making or 

 administration of national, State, regional or 

 local plans for land use and community develop- 

 ment. 



Membership: Open to all who wish to advance 

 their knowledge of planning. Active membership, 

 open to officers, members, staff, or consultants 

 of an official planning body, or an unofficial 

 planning body primarily engaged, on a non- 

 profit basis, in the field of land or community 

 planning, and to faculties of schools granting 

 degrees in planning; Associate membership, 

 open to all others ; Sponsoring membership, for 

 those wishing to contribute to the work of the 

 Society ; Student membership, open to persons 

 who will be enrolled in school full time for at 

 least six months after payment of membership 

 dues. Total membership approximately 4,000. 



Meetings: Annual. 



Professional activities: Annual award of sil- 

 ver medal, for leadership in and contribution to 

 planning ; annual award for pubHc service 

 rendered in the advancement of city and regional 

 planning through outstanding journalism; main- 

 tenance of inquiry service. 



Publications: Newsletter, monthly, current 

 volume : 26. Jobs in Planning, semimonthly. 

 Information Reports, monthly. Planning (year- 

 book). Editor: Dennis O'Harrow. Zoning 

 Digest, monthly, current volume : 12. Editor : 

 Jack Noble. 



Library: 30,000 to 35,000 volumes. Subject 

 emphasis : Planning, zoning, urban renewal. 



334. American Society of Plant Physiologists, 



President: R. H. Burris, University of Wis- 

 consin, Madison, Wis. Term expires Decem- 

 ber 31, 1960. Executive Secretary: G. R. 

 Noggle, University of Florida, Gainesville, 

 Fla. Term indefinite. 



History: Organized 1924. Sections: North- 

 eastern; Mid-Western; Southern; Western; 

 Washington, Smithsonian Institution, Washing- 

 ton. D. C. 



Purpose: To encourage and promote the 

 growth and development of plant physiology as 

 a pure and applied phase of botanical science, 

 to publish the results of meritorious research 

 in plant physiology, and to promote the general 

 welfare and good fellowship of plant physiolo- 

 gists. 



Membership: Regular members, 1,321; Life, 

 35 ; Corresponding, elected by Executive Com- 

 mittee, 19; Student, 140; Emeritus, 11. Total 

 membership 1,526. 



Meetings: Annual. 



Professional activities: Stephen Hales Prize, 

 awarded biennially to residents of North America 

 who have served the science of plant physiology 

 in some noteworthy manner. Charles Reid 

 Barnes Life Membership Award, given annually 

 to members or non-members of the Society, 

 every fifth award to be made to a foreign 

 member. 



Publications: Plant Physiology, bimonthly, 

 current volume: 35, $12. Editor: Allan H. 

 Brown, Department of Botany, University of 

 Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minn. 



335. American Society of Plant Taxonomists. 



President: Lyman Benson, Department of 

 Botany, Pomona College, Claremont, Calif. 

 Term expires December 31, 1960. Secretary: 

 C. Ritchie Bell, Department of Botany, Uni- 

 versity of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, N. C. 

 Term expires December 31, 1960. 



