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SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL SOCIETIES 



Sugar Technologists ; May 25, 1938, the Asso- 

 ciation was reorganized and name changed to 

 present title. Two Sections : Field and Factory. 



Purpose: The study of the sugar industry, 

 in all its aspects, and the promotion of its 

 welfare. 



Membership: Restricted to residents of the 

 State of Hawaii. Active members, 976, those 

 engaged in the production or processing of 

 sugar cane ; Associate, 236, any others interested 

 in the purpose of the organization ; Honorary, 

 69, may be conferred upon any individual who 

 has rendered distinguished service to the Hawai- 

 ian sugar industry. Total membership 1,281. 



Meetings: Annual. 



Publications: Proceedings of the Annual 

 Meetings, annually, free to members ; $8 to non- 

 members. 



725. Health Physics Society. President: John S. 

 Laughlin, 102 Brite Avenue, Scarsdale, N. Y. 

 Term expires June 1961. Secretary: Russell 

 F. Cowing, 1075 Commercial Street, East 

 Weymouth, Mass. Term indefinite. 



History: Organized at Ann Arbor, Michigan, 

 June 1956; constitution and by-laws adopted 

 at Pittsburgh, May 31, 1957. Five organized 

 chapters. 



Purpose: To aid in the work of health physics, 

 to improve dissemination of information between 

 individuals in this field and related fields, to 

 improve public understanding of the problems 

 and needs in radiation protection, and to promote 

 and improve health physics as a profession. 



Membership: Members, 1,330, persons who 

 have been engaged in some form of health 

 physics activities for at least one year and have 

 been graduated from an accredited school of 

 college grade, or have had equivalent training; 

 Associates, 37, persons who lack the necessary 

 qualifications for election as Members but are 

 engaged in a field of endeavor related to health 

 physics or whose interests in the science would 

 make them desirable Associate Members ; Affil- 

 iates, 4, organizations approved by the affirmative 

 vote of at least eight voting members of the 

 Board. 



Meetings: Annual. 



Professional activities: American Board of 

 Health Physics presentl}' being organized for 

 the purpose of certification. 



Publications : Health Physics, quarterly, cur- 

 rent volumes : 2-3, $6 per volume for members, 

 $17 per volume for non-members. Editor-in- 

 Chief: K. Z. Morgan. 



726. Heat Transfer and Fluid Mechanics Insti- 

 tute. Division of Chemical Engineering, Stan- 

 ford University, Stanford, Calif. General 



Chairman: Raymond C. Binder, University 

 of Southern California, Los Angeles, Calif. 

 Term expires September 1962. 



History: 1960 Institute continues a twelve- 

 year history. 



Purpose: Presenting technical and scientific 

 advances in fluid mechanics, heat transfer, and 

 related fields. 



Membership: Professional interest in heat 

 transfer and fluid mechanics. Total membership 

 400. 



Meetings: Annual. 



727. Helminthological Society of Washington. 



President: George W. Luttermoser, Labora- 

 tory of Parasitic Diseases, National Institutes 

 of Health, Bethesda 14, Md. Term expires 

 December 1960. Corresponding Secretary- 

 Treasurer: Edna M. Buhrer, Plant Industry 

 Station, Beltsville, Md. Term expires Decem- 

 ber 1960. Recording Secretary: L. A. 

 Jachowski, Jr., Naval Medical Research 

 Institute, Bethesda 14, Md. Term expires 

 December 1960. 



History: Organized October 8, 1910; affiliated 

 with the Washington Academy of Sciences in 

 1923 and with the American Society of Para- 

 sitologists in 1959. 



Purpose : To provide for the association of 

 persons interested in parasitology and related 

 sciences for the presentation and discussion of 

 items of interest pertaining to those sciences. 



Membership: Interest in parasitology or re- 

 lated sciences ; election by vote of Society. 

 Honorary Members, 1; Resident, 117; Life, 6; 

 Non-resident, 261. Total membership 385. 



Meetings: Monthly, October through May. 



Publications: Proceedings, semiannual, cur- 

 rent volume : 27, domestic $3, foreign $3.25, 

 free to members. Editor : G. F. Otto, Abbott 

 Laboratories, North Chicago, 111. 



728. Herb Society of America. Horticultural 

 Hall, 300 Massachusetts Avenue, Boston 15, 

 Mass. President: Mrs. Harry E. Ritchie, 

 3060 Chelsea Drive, Cleveland 18, Ohio. Term 

 expires July 1962. Exccutiz'e Secretary: Mrs. 

 Robert H. Miller. Term indefinite. 



History: Organized 1933; incorporated 1935. 

 Sections : Regional units in Northern Cali- 

 fornia, Southern California, New England, 

 Connecticut, New York, Philadelphia, Western 

 Pennsylvania, Virginia, Western Reserve 

 (Ohio). Committees: Botanical and Horticul- 

 tural Research ; Herbarium. 



Purpose: To further the knowledge of herbs 

 and their uses. 



