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Membership: Requires active direction of 

 research in industrial research organizations or 

 institutes representing industry, with super- 

 vision of minimum of ten graduate personnel. 

 Total membership 100. 



Meetings: Eight annually. 



431. Association of Senior Engineers of the 

 Bureau of Ships. President: Walter W. 

 Kinsinger, Navy Department, Bureau of 

 Ships, Code 456B, Washington 25, D. C. Term 

 expires June 1961. Secretary: J. Lamar 

 Cochran, Navy Department, Bureau of Ships, 

 Code 660M, Washington 25, D. C. Term 

 expires June 1961. 



History: Organized in 1946 by and exclusively 

 for civilian engineers of the Bureau of Ships ; 

 organizing chairman, Albert A. Smith ; first 

 president, John C. Niedermair. 



Purpose: To promote and protect the best 

 interests of the government of the United States 

 at all times ; to promote the general welfare 

 of the membership professionally and socially ; 

 to foster a spirit of good fellowship and co- 

 operation ; and to maintain high standards of 

 professional ethics and competence. 



Membership: Full members, male civilian 

 engineers of Grade GS 12 and over, 305 ; 

 Associate, male individuals of GS 11 and over 

 who are not qualified for full membership, 44; 

 Junior, all requirements of full membership 

 except for grade which shall be at least GS 5, ; 

 Honorary, granted to engineers of outstanding 

 ability, who are elected by the membership, 5. 

 Total membership 354. 



Meetings: Annual and monthly. 



Professional activities: Senior Engineer 

 Award for professional achievement (not limited 

 to members of Association, but limited to em- 

 ployees of Bureau of Ships). 



Publications: The Senior Engineer, monthly. 

 Editor : Frank Lindenberger. 



432. Association of Southeastern Biologists. 



President: Victor A. Greulach, Department 

 of Botany, University of North Carolina, 

 Chapel Hill, N. C. Term expires April 22, 

 1961. Secretary: Harold J. Humm, Depart- 

 ment of Botany, Duke University, Durham, 

 N. C. Term expires April 22, 1961. 



History: Organized in 1937 as a result of 

 an invitational meeting held at the University 

 of Georgia called by Dr. George H. Boyd. 



Purpose: To encourage in the broadest and 

 most libera! manner the advancement of biology 

 as a science by the promotion of research in 

 biology ; by the increase and diffusion of knowl- 

 edge of biology; by emphasis of the relation of 

 fundamental knowledge of biology to the solu- 



tion of biological problems ; by the preservation 

 of biological resources ; and by its meetings, 

 reports, discussions and publications to promote 

 scientific interests and inquiry, thereby adding 

 to the health, happiness and knowledge of all 

 peoples. 



Membership: Any person who is engaged in 

 (a) biological research, (b) the teaching of 

 biological subjects (c) graduate study in the 

 biological sciences, or (d) work in the various 

 fields of appHed biology. Members, in general, 

 shall be residents of the Southeastern States. 

 Total membership 800. 



Meetings: Annual. 



Professional activities: Carolina Biological 

 Supply Company Research Award, to encourage 

 biological research, $100; Southern Scientific 

 Supply Company Meritorious Award, for the 

 recognition of outstanding biology teachers in 

 Southeast, $100; Phipps and Bird Fellowship 

 to Mount Lake Biological Station, to help 

 biology investigators, $200 ; Goethe Travel 

 Awards, to graduate students for payment of 

 expenses of attending annual meetings. 



Publications: ASB Bulletin, quarterly current 

 volume: 7, $2. Editor: C. W. Hart, Jr., The 

 Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 

 19th and the Parkway, Philadelphia 3, Pa. 



433. Association of Southern Feed, Fertilizer 

 & Pesticide Control Officials. President: 

 Bruce Poundstone, Department of Feed and 

 Fertilizer, Kentucky Agricultural Experiment 

 Station, University of Kentucky, Lexington, 

 Ky. Term expires June 1961. Secretary- 

 Treasurer: Maurice B. Rowe, Fertilizer- 

 Motor Fuels, Division of Chemistry and 

 Foods, Virginia Department of Agriculture, 

 Richmond 19, Va. Term expires June 1961. 



History: Organized April 26, 1938 as the 

 Southern Feed Control Officials; name changed 

 to present title June 8, 1950. 



Purpose: To promote uniformity in legisla- 

 tion, definitions, standards, rules and regulations 

 governing enforcement of laws relating to 

 manufacture, sale and distribution of feeding 

 stuffs, mineral feeds, livestock remedies and all 

 forms of fertilizers and pesticides in the South- 

 ern States. 



Membership: Confined to representatives of 

 the federal agencies engaged in feed, fertilizer 

 and pesticide control work, and the states of 

 Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, 

 Louisiana, Mississippi, New Mexico, North 

 Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, 

 Texas, Virginia, and West Virginia; the mem- 

 berships shall be confined to those representa- 

 tives of the above federal agencies and states 

 charged by law with execution of the laws 

 relating to the manufacture and sale of feeding 



