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SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL SOCIETIES 



ment of laws relating to the manufacture, sale, 

 and distribution of feedingstuff and livestock 

 remedies in North America. 



Membership: Composed of the officers 

 charged by law with the execution of state, 

 dominion, and federal laws regulating the sale 

 of commercial feedingstuffs and livestock reme- 

 dies ; the Secretary of the United States Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture ; the heads of chiefs of 

 experiment stations, bureaus, divisions, sections, 

 and laboratories charged by law with the ex- 

 amination of feedingstuffs and livestock reme- 

 dies ; and such deputies as shall be duly desig- 

 nated by the above officials. Total membership 

 80. 



Meetings: Annual. 



Publications: Official Publication, annual, $5. 

 Editorial Committee : Chairman, P. B. Curtis, 

 Lafayette, Ind. 



408. Association of American Fertilizer Control 

 Officials. President: S. B. Randle, Rutgers 

 University, New Brunswick, N. J. Term ex- 

 pires October 14, 1960. Secretary-Treasurer : 

 B. D. Cloaninger, Clemson Agricultural Col- 

 lege, Clemson, S. C. Term indefinite. 



History: Organized 1947. 



Purpose: To stimulate interest and uniformity 

 in promulgating and enforcing the fertilizer laws 

 of the nation. 



Membership: Open to state or federal con- 

 trol officials. Total membership 49. 



Meetings : Annual. 



Publications: Official Publication, annual, $1. 



409- Association of American Geographers. 



1785 Massachusetts Avenue, N. W., Washing- 

 ton 6, D. C. President: Jan O. M. Broek, De- 

 partment of Geography, University of Minne- 

 sota, Minneapolis, Minn. Term expires Sep- 

 tember 1, 1961. Secretary: Meredith F. Bur- 

 rill, Office of Geography, U. S. Department 

 of the Interior, Washington 25, D. C. Term 

 expires September 5, 1963. 



History: Organized December 29, 1904; in- 

 corporated 1937. Sections: New England; 

 New York-New Jersey; Middle Atlantic; 

 Southeast ; East Lakes ; West Lakes ; Great 

 Plains-Rocky Mountains ; Southwest ; Pacific 

 Coast. Committees : Cartography ; Geography 

 of the Americas ; National Atlas ; Political 

 Geography ; Trends in Training and Placement 

 of Geographers. 



Purpose: To further professional investiga- 

 tions in geography and to encourage the appli- 

 cation of geographic findings in education, gov- 

 ernment, and business. The Association shall 

 support these objectives by promoting acquaint- 

 ance and discussion among its members and with 



scholars in related fields, by stimulating re- 

 search and scientific exploration, by encourag- 

 ing the publication of scholarly studies, and by 

 performing services to aid the advancement of 

 its members and the field of geography. 



Membership: Members, 1,500, those with a 

 Ph.D. degree in geography, or equivalent educa- 

 tion, or a masters degree in geography, followed 

 by at least one year's work as a professional 

 geographer, or an undergraduate degree in 

 geography and at least three years' full-time 

 service as a professional geographer, or sig- 

 nificant professional contributions to the field of 

 geography ; Associate Members, 500, persons 

 actively interested in geography, but not meet- 

 ing the above requirements. Total membership 

 2,000. 



Meetings : Annual. 



Professional activities: Joint Research Fund, 

 to assist publication of The Annals of The Asso- 

 ciation of American Geographers. Wallace W. 

 Atwood Research Fund, to encourage field 

 studies in physical geography. General Research 

 Fund, for research contemplated, or to ensure 

 the completion of a research project and per- 

 haps provide for proper and appropriate pub- 

 lication of the results of research. A. S. Ny- 

 strom Fellowship of $2,400 for graduate re- 

 search in educational geography. Three fellow- 

 ships given in 1960 to authors under 36 years 

 of age preparing the best papers for presenta- 

 tion at the Nineteenth International Geo- 

 graphical Congress in Stockholm, August 5-13, 

 1960. 



Publications: Annals, quarterly, current vol- 

 ume : 50, $10. Editor : Walter Kollmorgen, Uni- 

 versity of Kansas, Lawrence, Kans. Profes- 

 sional Geographer, bi-monthly, $5. Editor: 

 Phyllis Griess, Pennsylvania State University, 

 University Park, Pa. Monograph Series, ir- 

 regular, current volume : 1, $5. Editor : Andrew 

 Clark, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wis. 



410. Association of American Medical Colleges. 



2530 Ridge Avenue, Evanston, III. Presi- 

 dent: Thomas H. Hunter, University of Vir- 

 ginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, Va. 

 Term expires October 1960. Executive 

 Director: Ward Darley. Term indefinite. 



History: Organized 1876. 



Purpose: The improvement and advancement 

 of medical education by developing increasingly 

 effective means of selecting the most able stu- 

 dents for the study of medicine, by encouraging 

 experimentation in curriculum development and 

 medical teaching methods, by supporting experi- 

 mentation, studies, and programs aimed at im- 

 proving the ability of students to learn and 

 teachers to teach, by supporting efforts to im- 

 prove the hospital internship and residency as 



