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Publications: Newsletter, monthly, current 

 volume : 4, $3. Editor : Larry N. Spiller. Legis- 

 lative Action Bulletin, irregular, free to mem- 

 bers. Editor : James N. DeSerio. 



578. Convention of American Instructors of the 

 Deaf. President: Richard G. Brill, California 

 School for the Deaf, Riverside, Calif. Term 

 expires June 1961. 



History: Founded in 1850 and incorporated 

 by Act of Congress in 1897. 



Purpose: To promote the education of the 

 deaf on the broadest, most advanced, and 

 practical lines, and to secure the harmonious 

 union in the organization of all persons actually 

 engaged in educating the deaf in America. 



Membership : O-^tn to qualified teachers of the 

 deaf. Total membership 2,400. 



Meetings: Biennial. 



Publications: American Annals of the Deaf, 

 bimonthly, September through May, current 

 volume : 105, $5. Editor : Powrie V. Doctor, 

 Gallaudet College, Washington, D. C. 



579- Cooper Ornithological Society. Museum 

 of Vertebrate Zoology, University of Cali- 

 fornia, Berkeley, Calif. President: W. J. 

 Sheffler, 4731 Angeles Vista Boulevard, Los 

 Angeles 43, Calif. Term expires April 1961. 

 Secretary: John Davis, University of Cali- 

 fornia, Hastings, Reservation, Carmel Valley, 

 Calif. Term expires April 1961. 



History: Organized June 1893 in San Jose, 

 California ; incorporated December, 1934. Di- 

 visions : Northern and Southern. 



Purpose: The study of birds and the diffusion 

 of the knowledge so gained. 



Membership: Candidates must be proposed 

 and recommended by a member in good stand- 

 ing; if the Secretary receives no objection to 

 the proposed member within thirty days after 

 the name has been read at a regularly scheduled 

 monthly meeting, membership is automatically 

 conferred. Total membership 1,665. 



Meetings: Annual. 



Professional activities: A Brazier Howell 

 Award for most meritorious paper presented 

 at annual meeting by non-holder of Ph. D., in 

 biology, $150. Harry R. Painton Award, bi- 

 annual, for author of most meritorious paper 

 published in the Condor in previous four years, 

 $500. 



Publications: Condor, bimonthly, $1, free to 

 members. Editor : Alden H. Miller. 



580. Coordinating Research Council, Inc. 30 



Rockefeller Plaza, New York 20, N. Y. 

 President: G. J. Huebner, Jr., Chrysler Cor- 



poration, Detroit, Mich. Term expires January 

 1961. Secretary: Miss Genevieve Walmsley. 

 Term indefinite. 



History: Organized May 1942, incorporated 

 1943. Committees : Aviation, Diesel and Motor 

 Fuel, Lubricant, and Equipment Research. 



Purpose: To encourage and promote the arts 

 and sciences by directing scientific cooperative 

 research in developing the best possible combina- 

 tions of fuels, lubricants, and the equipment in 

 which they are used, and to afford a means of 

 cooperation with the government on matters of 

 national interest within this field. 



Membership: Open to representatives of par- 

 ticipating companies and organizations. Com- 

 mittee and working group members, 700 ; 

 Research, 14; Sustaining, 2. Total membership 

 700. 



Meetings: Annual. 



581. Corpus Christ! Geological Society. P. O. 



Box 1068, Corpus Christi, Tex. President: 

 C. M. Baker, Continental Oil Company, 601 

 Oil Industries Building, Corpus Christi, Tex. 

 Term expires May 1961. Secretary: Mary 

 Catherine Magaw, Shell Oil Company, P. O. 

 Box 1861, Corpus Christi, Tex. Term expires 

 May 1961. 



History: Organized June 8, 1942. 



Purpose: To promote the science of geology, 

 especially as it relates to development of oil, 

 gas, and other resources of Southwest Texas. 



Membership: Members must be qualified for 

 or ethically engaged in practice of petroleum 

 geology ; Associate Members must be engaged 

 in some related branch of the petroleum industry. 



Meetings: Twice monthly, September through 

 May. 



Professional activities: Robert A. Janosky 

 Scholarship in geology. 



582. Council for Agricultural and Chemurgic 

 Research. 350 Fifth Avenue, New York 1, 

 N. Y. President: Dwayne O. Andreas, P. O. 

 Box 750, Mankato, Minn. Term expires 

 April 1961. Treasurer: John W. Ticknor. 

 Term expires April 1961. 



History: Formed 1935 in Dearborn, Michigan; 

 incorporated 1936 as the Farm Chemurgic 

 Council ; reincorporated 1937 as the National 

 Farm Chemurgic Council ; name changed to 

 present title May 1, 1955. Committees: Tech- 

 nical Advisory ; Swine ; Starch. 



Purpose: To further the industrial use of 

 agricultural produce ; to devise and promote the 

 raising of new crops for industry. 



Membership: Interest in furthering industrial 

 use of American products of the soil. Associate 



