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Meetings: Annual. 



Professional activities: Rural Kentucky 

 Medical Scholarship Fund ; Distinguished Service 

 Award, for notable services to the medical 

 profession ; General Practitioners Award, to 

 outstanding general practitioner. 



Publications: Journal, monthly, current vol- 

 ume : 58, $8. Editor : Sam A. Overstreet, 

 Heyburn Building, Louisville, Ky. 



Library: 2,000 volumes. Subject emphasis: 

 Medicine. 



848. Kings County Radiological Society. 1313 

 Bedford Avenue, Brooklyn, N. Y. President: 

 Ernest I. Melton. Term expires June 1961. 

 Secretary-Treasurer: A. Berens, 1917 Bedford 

 Avenue, Brooklyn, N. Y. Term expires June 

 1961. 



History: Organized 1934. 



Purpose: Advancement of the science and 

 practice of radiology in Kings County and its 

 environs. 



Membership: Active members, 36, practice 

 limited to radiology ; Honorary. Total member- 

 ship 36. 



Meetings: Monthly, except June, July, and 

 August. 



849. Lafayette Geological Society. P. O. Box 



1896, O. C. S., Lafayette, La. President: 

 Samuel A. Spencer. Term expires December 

 31, 1960. Secretary: W. S. McAlister. Term 

 expires December 31, 1960. 



History: Organized December 17, 1952. 

 Member society of Gulf Coast Association of 

 Geological Societies. Committees : Geological 

 Names and Correlation for American Associa- 

 tion of Petroleum Geologists ; Stratigraphic and 

 Paleontological Correlations ; Type Log. 



Purpose: To promote science of geology as 

 related to South Louisiana ; to promote fellow- 

 ship and cooperation among geologists and 

 others interested in geological problems. 



Membership: Persons engaged in the geologi- 

 cal profession or interested in geology. Active 

 members, 293 ; Student associates, 12. Total 

 membership 305. 



Meetings: Monthly. 



Professional activities: Field trips; first and 

 second place cash awards annually for best 

 Student geological papers prepared at South- 

 western Louisiana Institute ; preparation of 

 stratigraphic type logs for South Louisiana. 



850. Lake County Medical Society. 4640 West 

 5th Street, Gary, Ind. President: F. F. Boys, 

 4720 Magoun Avenue, East Chicago, Ind. 

 Term expires January 1, 1961. Executive 

 Secretary: John B. Twyman. Term indefinite. 



History: Founded 1898. Committees: In- 

 digent Medical Relief, Tuberculosis, Cancer, 

 Public Health, Crippled Children, Mental 

 Hygiene, Heart, Hospitals, Insurance and Wel- 

 fare, Nurses, Scientific Program, Maternal and 

 Child Welfare, Polio, Ethics. 



Purpose: To further postgraduate scientific 

 education, public relations, and the interests of 

 the Society's members. 



Membership: American citizenship and license 

 to practice medicine. Total membership 400. 



Meetings: Monthly. 



Professional activities: Oberlin Award given 

 annually to lay person in the community who 

 has given outstanding service to community 

 health. 



Publications: Lake County Medical News, ten 

 times a year, current volume : 22, free to 

 members. Editors : F. F. Premuda and G. N. 

 Lewis. 



851. Lepidopterists' Society. Department of 

 Zoology, Yale University, New Haven, Conn. 

 President: Walter Forster, Zoological 

 Museum, Menzingerstrasse 67, Munich, Ger- 

 many. Term expires December 31, 1960. 

 Secretary: Paul R. Ehrlich, Natural History 

 Museum, Stanford University, Stanford, Calif. 

 Term expires December 31, 1960. 



History: Organized 1947; Pacific Coast 

 branch founded 1954. 



Purpose: To promote the science of lepidop- 

 terology in all its branches and to encourage 

 free interchange among lepidopterists of all 

 countries. 



Membership: Honorary Life, 5, elected for 

 important contribution to the science ; Sustain- 

 ing, 100 ; Regular, 500, interest in lepidoptera. 



Meetings: Annual. 



Publications: Journal, quarterly, current vol- 

 ume : 14. Editor : C. L. Remington. Memoirs, 

 irregular, current volume: 1. Editor S. A. 

 Hessel. News, eight times a year, current vol- 

 ume : 2. Editor : J. W. Tilden. 



852. Liberal Geological Society, Inc., P. O. Box 



802, Liberal, Kans. President: James R. 

 Zimmerman. Term expires January 1961. 

 Executive Secretary: John W. Mason, P. O. 

 Box 432, Liberal, Kans. Term expires Janu- 

 ary 1961. 



History: Organized January 5, 1954. 



Purpose: To promote, foster, and aid the 

 science of geology and the gathering of informa- 

 tion on various geologic subjects and problems 

 specifically pertaining to the Anadarko Basin 

 and its environs. 



