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Library: 17,000 volumes. Subject emphasis: 

 Aeronautical science. 



791. Institute of Traffic Engineers. 2029 K 

 Street, N. W., Washington 6, D. C. President: 

 Alfred F. Malo, Department of Streets and 

 Traffic, 735 Randolph Street, Detroit 26, 

 Mich. Term expires August 22, 1961, or, 

 if by-laws are amended, term expires on a 

 later date in 1961. Executive Secretary: David 

 M. Baldwin. Term indefinite. 



History: Organized 1930, in Pittsburgh, Pa; 

 incorporated in Connecticut 1954. Fourteen 

 local sections. Technical work carried on by 

 a technical council and seven technical depart- 

 ments, including professional standards, educa- 

 tion and administration, traffic operations 

 measures, applications of control devices, geo- 

 metric design, transportation planning, and 

 design of devices and equipment. 



Purpose: To advance the art and science of 

 traffic engineering, and encourage intercourse 

 between men with mutual interests in this work ; 

 to foster traffic engineering education ; to stim- 

 ulate original research in this field ; to advance 

 professional development of, and establish a 

 central point of reference and union for, mem- 

 bers. 



Membership: Members, 345, thirty-five years 

 of age or over, twelve years' engineering experi- 

 ence including five years of traffic, responsible 

 charge for five years, three years' important 

 traffic engineering work; Associate, 613, over 

 twenty-seven years of age, eight years' engineer- 

 ing experience including three years of traffic, 

 one year responsible charge of traffic engineer- 

 ing; Junior, 299, twenty-one to thirty-five years 

 of age, five years' engineering experience 

 including one year in traffic ; Affiliate, 53, by 

 invitation ; Honorary, 5, by invitation. Total 

 membership 1,315. 



Meetings: Annual. 



Professional activities: Technical Develop- 

 ment and Research Fund, to assist qualified 

 agencies in traffic engineering research ; Past 

 Presidents' Award, annual, for best traffic engi- 

 neering paper by member under thirty-five years 

 of age. 



Publications: Traffic Engineering, monthly, 

 current volume: 30, $4.50. Proceedings, 

 annual, current volume : 29, $2. Yearbook, 

 $1. Editor, all listed publications: David M. 

 Baldwin. 



792. Instrument Society of America. 313 6th 



Avenue, Pittsburgh 22, Pa. President: Ralph 

 H. Tripp, Flight Test Division, Grumman 

 Aircraft Engineering Corporation, Bethpage, 

 N. Y. Term expires September 1961. 



History: Organized August 7, 1939, as 

 x\merican Society of Instrument Engineers ; re- 

 organized November 1939, as American Society 

 for Measurement and Control ; incorporated and 

 name changed to present title 1946. 101 Geo- 

 graphic Sections in the United States and Can- 

 ada. Committees : Research and Development ; 

 Instrument Operation and Maintenance ; Testing 

 Instrumentation ; Analysis Instrumentation ; 

 Instrumentation for Inspection and Gaging ; 

 Instrumentation for Production Processes ; 

 Instrumentation for Transportation; Medical 

 Instrumentation ; Meteorological Instrumenta- 

 tion ; Nuclear Radiation Instrumentation ; Geo- 

 physical Instrumentation; Physical Properties 

 Measurement. 



Purpose: To advance the arts and sciences 

 connected with theory, design, manufacture, and 

 use of instruments in the various sciences and 

 technologies. 



Membership: Open to any person interested 

 in the objectives of this Society. Total member- 

 ship 12,000. 



Meetings: Annual. 



Professional activities: Fellowships and other 

 grants to Foundation for Instrumentation Edu- 

 cation and Research ; Arnold O. Beckman 

 Award, $1,000, annual, to member making most 

 important technological contribution to new 

 principle instrument design, development, or 

 application. 



Publications: Journal, monthly, current vol- 

 ume : 7, $4. Editor : Charles W. Covey. 



793. Insulated Power Cable Engineers Associa- 

 tion. 283 Valley Road, Montclair, N. J. 

 President: G. J. Crowdes, 79 Sidney Street, 

 Cambridge 39, Mass. Term expires October 

 1, 1961. Secretary: G. M. Haskell. Term 

 expires October 1, 1961. 



History: Organized 1925. 



Purpose: To promote safety, reliability, and 

 economy of bare, covered, and insulated con- 

 ductors for transmission and distribution of 

 electric energy. 



Membership: Must be members of technical 

 stafifs of concerns manufacturing bare, covered, 

 and insulated conductors. Total membership 

 118. 



Meetings: Bimonthly. 



794. Inter-American Society of Psychology. 



President: Gustave M. Gilbert, Psychology 

 Department, Long Island University, Brook- 

 lyn 1, N. Y. Term expires 1961. Executive 

 Secretary: Samuel Pearlman, 1 Hanson Place, 

 Brooklyn 17, N. Y. Term expires 1961. 



