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Membership: Open to persons with an active 

 interest in some particular aspect of herbs. 

 Active Members, 600. 



Meetings: Annual. 



Professional activities: Award of Merit, to 

 honor members who have made outstanding 

 contributions to the knowledge of herbs, $25. 



Publications: Herbarist, annual, current vol- 

 ume : 25, $1.50. Editor Miss Madeleine Harding, 

 22 Robinson Street, Cambridge, Mass. 



729. Herpetologists League. President: Alan 

 Leviton, California Academy of Sciences, 

 Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, Calif. Term 

 expires May 1961. Executive Secretary: 

 John Legler, Department of Zoology, Uni- 

 versity of Utah, Salt Lake City 2, Utah. Term 

 expires May 1961. 



History: Organized 1936. 



Purpose: The advancement of the science of 

 herpetology. 



Membership: Interest in herpetology. Total 

 membership over 700. 



Meetings: Once or twice annually with the 

 American Association for the Advancement of 

 Science. 



Publications: Herpetologica, quarterly, cur- 

 rent volume : 16, $4. Editor : Wilmer W. Tanner, 

 Department of Zoology, Brigham Young Uni- 

 versity, Provo, Utah. 



730. Highway Research Board. 2101 Constitu- 

 tion Avenue, N. W., Washington 25, D. C. 

 Chairman: W. A. Bugge, Director of High- 

 ways, Transportation Building, Olympia, 

 Wash. Term expires January 8, 1962. Di- 

 rector: Ered Burggraf. Term indefinite. 



History: Organized 1920 as Advisory Board 

 on Highway Research ; name changed to present 

 title 1924. The Board operates under the aus- 

 pices of the Division of Engineering and Indus- 

 trial Research of the National Academy of 

 Sciences-National Research Council. Depart- 

 ments : Economics, Finance and Administra- 

 tion ; Highway Design ; Materials and Construc- 

 tion ; Maintenance ; Traffic and Operations ; 

 and Soils, Geology and Foundations. 



Purpose: To encourage research and to pro- 

 vide a national clearinghouse and correlation 

 service for research activities and information 

 on highway administration transport and tech- 

 nology by means of (1) a forum for presentation 

 and discussion of research papers and reports ; 

 (2) committees to suggest and plan research 

 work and to correlate and evaluate results ; (3) 

 dissemination of useful information ; and (4) 

 liaison and cooperative services. 



Membership: Voting membership consists of 

 46 technical and commercial associations; 1,700 

 non-voting associates. 



Meetings: Annual. 



Professional actizntics: Subscriptions and con- 

 tributions from the highway departments of the 

 States and Territories, from the Federal Gov- 

 ernment, and from technical organizations and 

 industrial concerns, for research correlation, 

 cooperative investigations and special researches. 

 Highway Research Board Award was instituted 

 in 1940 to give recognition to an author or 

 authors of papers of outstanding merit presented 

 at the annual meetings of the Board. Roy W. 

 Crum Award for Distinguished Service, insti- 

 tuted in 1948 as the Award to be made in 

 recognition of outstanding achievement in the 

 field of highway research. The George Bartlett 

 Award, established in 1931, is given annually, in 

 cooperation with the American Association of 

 State Highway Officials and the American Road 

 Builders Association, to some individual who 

 has made an outstanding contribution to high- 

 way progress. 



Publications: Proceedings, annual, current 

 volume : 38, $10, free to members and associates. 

 Highway Research Abstracts, monthly, except 

 August, current volume : 29, $4, free to members 

 and associates. Research Reports, Bulletins, 

 Bibliographies and Special Reports published 

 at frequent irregular intervals. 



Library: 2,000 volumes. 



731. History of Science Society. President: 

 Henry Guerlac, Department of History, Cor- 

 nell University, Ithaca, N. Y. Term expires 

 December 31, 1960. Secretary: John C. Greene, 

 Department of History, Iowa State Uni- 

 versity, Ames, Iowa. Term expires December 

 31, 1960. 



History: Organized January 12, 1924; incor- 

 porated January 30, 1925. 



Purpose: To foster the interest and the study 

 of the history of science; to support a journal 

 devoted to this subject. 



Membership: Open to persons interested in 

 the history of science. Regular members ; Stu- 

 dent members, undergraduate or graduate in 

 accredited college or university ; Sustaining 

 members. Total membership approximately 

 1,200. 



Meetings: Annual. 



Professional activities: George Sarton Medal, 

 for distinguished service in history of science ; 

 Ida and Henry Schuman Prize, $250 annual 

 award for an undergraduate essay in the history 

 of science; The Pfizer Award, $500 annual 

 award for an outstanding publication in the 

 history of science. 



Publications : Isis, quarterly, current volume: 

 60, $7.50. Editor: Harry Woolf. 



