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SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL SOCIETIES 



Arrowhead (Calif.), Cleveland, Dallas-Fort 

 Worth, Delaware Valley, Houston, Hudson- 

 Mohawk (N.Y.), Kansas City, Kingston 

 (N.Y.), Long Island, Los Angeles, Mid-South- 

 east, Milwaukee, Orange County (Calif.), Pitts- 

 burgh, Rio Grande, Rocky Mountain, St. Louis, 

 San Diego, San Francisco Bay Area, Shreve- 

 port, Southeastern, Syracuse, Tulsa, Utah, 

 Washington (D.C.), Western Carolinas. 



Purpose: To advance the sciences, study, de- 

 sign, development, construction, and application 

 of modern machinery, computing techniques, and 

 appropriate languages for general information 

 processing, for scientific computation, for the 

 recognition, storage, retrieval, and processing 

 of data of all kinds, and for the automatic con- 

 trol and simulation of processes ; to promote 

 free interchange of information about the sci- 

 ences and arts of information processing, both 

 among specialists and the public. 



Mevibership: Open to persons interested in 

 this Association and its purposes. Total mem- 

 bership 6,000. 



Meetings: Annual. 



Publications: Journal, quarterly, current vol- 

 ume : 7, $10. Editor : W. F. Bauer. Communica- 

 tions, monthly, current volume: 3, $10. Editor: 

 Alan J. Perlis. 



399. Association for Physical and Mental Re- 

 habilitation. 105 St. Lawrence Street, Re- 

 hoboth Beach, Del. President: Carl Haven 

 Young, 3231 Coolidge Avenue, Los Angeles 

 66, Calif. Term expires June 30, 1961. Presi- 

 dent-elect and Interim Executive Director: 

 Richard G. Fowler, 3586 Tilden Avenue, Los 

 Angeles 34, Calif. 



Plistory: Organized at Topeka, Kans., 1946. 



Purpose: To provide a dynamic concept and 

 practice of ancillary service in medical treat- 

 ment and rehabilitation made possible by new 

 and improved medical and surgical techniques. 



Membership: Requires bachelor of science de- 

 gree in physical education, with courses in psy- 

 chology, pathology, anatomy, physiology, and 

 therapeutic exercise, and one year of clinical 

 experience under a physician. Total member- 

 ship 800. 



Meetings: Annual. 



Professional activities: Scholarships in cor- 

 rective therapy ; John Eisele Davis Award, Cor- 

 rective Therapy Award. 



Publications : Journal, bimonthly, current vol- 

 ume : 14, $5. Editor: Roger H. Wessel, P. O. 

 Box 473, Montrose, N, Y. 



400. Association for Research in Nervous and 

 Mental Disease, Inc. 700 West 168th Street, 

 New York 32, N. Y. President: Clarence C. 



Hare. Term expires 1961. Secretary- 

 Treasurer: Rollo J. Masselink. Term 

 indefinite. 



History: Organized in 1920 as the Neuro- 

 psychiatric Research Society ; name changed 

 to present title in 1922. 



Purpose: The exchange and dissemination of 

 the products of research in the field of nervous 

 and mental disease. 



Membership: Members, 920, individuals who 

 are engaged in the practice of clinical neurol- 

 ogy, neurosurgery or psychiatry and who are 

 members of neurologic or psychiatric societies 

 in the United States and Canada. 



Meetings: Annual. 



Professional activities: Award given for out- 

 standing contribution in the field of neurology 

 and/or psychiatry. 



401. Association for Research in Ophthalmol- 

 ogy, Inc. 10515 Carnegie Avenue, Cleveland 

 6, Ohio. Chairman-Elect: V. Everett Kinsey, 

 Kresge Eye Institute, 690 Mullett Street, De- 

 troit 26, Mich. Term expires December 31, 

 1961. Secretary-Treasurer : Lorand V. John- 

 son. Term expires December 31, 1961. 



History: Organized 1929; incorporated July 

 20, 1936. Sections: Eastern, East Central, 

 Southeastern, Midsouthern, Midwestern, West- 

 ern. 



Purpose: To promote and further research in 

 ophthalmology and related sciences. 



Membership: Active members, 1,169; Educa- 

 tional, 142; Sustaining, 68; Honorary, 22; Life, 

 2. Total membership, 1,403. 



Professional activities: Proctor Medal, award- 

 ed annually for outstanding research in 

 ophthalmology and/or related sciences ; Frieden- 

 wald Memorial Lectureship, awarded annually 

 for outstanding contributions to ophthalmology 

 and/or related sciences. 



402. Association for Symbolic Logic. 190 Hope 

 Street, Providence 6, R. I. President: Frederic 

 B. Fitch, 1834 Yale Station, New Haven, 

 Conn. Term expires January 1962. Secretary- 

 Treasurer: Theodore Hailperin, Lehigh Uni- 

 versity, Bethlehem, Pa. Term expires January 

 1963. 



History: Organized and incorporated in 1936. 



Purpose: To promote research and critical 

 studies in the field of mathematical logic and 

 immediately related fields ; to provide a meeting 

 ground for mathematicians and philosophers ; 

 and to encourage cooperation and mutual 

 criticism among various groups. 



Membership: Open to those individuals inter- 

 ested in symbolic logic upon vote by the Execu- 



