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History: Organized October 26, 1948. 



Purpose: To promote interest in and recogni- 

 tion of anesthesiology in Maine ; to encourage 

 progress in all aspects of practice of anesthesi- 

 ology ; to provide opportunities for fellowship, 

 instruction, and mutual assistance for its mem- 

 bers. 



Membership: Active members, 28, requires 

 membership in American Society of Anesthesi- 

 ologists ; Junior, 5, physicians engaged in full 

 time training in anesthesia. Total membership 

 22,. 



Meetings: Five annually. 



betterment of financial, professional, and social 

 status of members. 



Membership: Limited to corporate members. 

 Qualifications : Adult, male persons over twenty- 

 one years of age, engaged in engineering work 

 or allied activities. Total membership approx- 

 imately 700. 



Meetings: Quarterly. 



Professional activities: Nathan L. Smith and 

 Bernard L. Crozier Awards, made to seniors 

 at Johns Hopkins University and University of 

 Maryland who evidence greatest improvement 

 in scholarship in the engineering schools. 



874. Maryland Academy of Sciences. 400 



Cathedral Street, Baltimore 1, Md. Director: 

 Thomson King. Term indefinite. 



History: Founded in Baltimore in 1797; 

 incorporated as the Maryland Academy of 

 Science and Literature in 1826; in 1867 name 

 changed to present title. 



Purpose: The collection, preservation, dis- 

 semination and interpretation of scientific infor- 

 mation to the people of Maryland. 



Membership: Open to anyone eighteen years 

 of age and over who is interested in the program 

 of the Academy. Total membership 1,046. 



Meetings: Annual. 



Professional activities: Three sections for 

 specialized work in Archeology, Astronomy and 

 Mineralogy. Award to Outstanding Young 

 Scientist of the Year. Sponsors Westinghouse 

 Science Talent Search. Planetarium, Thursday 

 Night Lectures, 'Round the World Adventure 

 Lectures, Exhibit Hall, telescopes on roof, mo- 

 bile exhibits loaned to schools, talks by staff 

 members at schools and various groups, graphic 

 time table of the heavens, excursions to visit 

 scientific institutions, class in elementary astron- 

 omy, class in astronautics for high school 

 teachers only. 



Publications: Newsletter, nine times a year. 



875. Maryland Association of Engineers, Inc. 



1274 Meridene Drive, Baltimore 12, Md. 

 President: John D. Lang, 1811 North Rolling 

 Road, Baltimore 7, Md. Term expires Jan- 

 uary 28, 1961. Executive Secretary: Thomas 

 A. Considine. Term expires January 28, 1961. 



History: Incorporated February 8, 1934. 



Purpose: To form a common meeting ground 

 for engineers, architects, contractors, and 

 material men ; to provide a medium for inter- 

 change of technical and business information ; 

 to aid in promulgation of proper laws and 

 their proper administration ; to encourage de- 

 velopment of civic and industrial improvements ; 

 to improve conditions surrounding practice of 

 engineering ; to aid, through proper cooperation. 



876. Maryland Pharmaceutical Association, 650 



West Lombard Street, Baltimore 1, Md. Pres- 

 ident : Harold M. Goldfeder. Term expires 

 June 1961. Executive Secretary: Joseph 

 Cohen. Term expires June 1961. 



History: Organized 1883 as the Maryland 

 State Pharmaceutical Association ; incorporated 

 under present title 1889. 



Purpose: To advance the science of pharmacy ; 

 to promote scientific research ; to strive to have 

 enacted just, yet stringent, laws to prevent the 

 adulteration of foods and medicines ; to confine 

 the compounding and sale of medicine to reg- 

 ularly educated pharmacists. 



Membership: Active, open to all registered 

 pharmacists in good standing; Associate, those 

 allied with the pharmaceutical profession. Active 

 members, 600; Associate members, 200. Total 

 membership 800. 



Meetings: Quarterly. 



Professional activities: Scholarships to the 

 University of Maryland School of Pharmacy. 



Publications: The Maryland Pharmacist, 

 monthly, current volume : 35, $2. Editor : Joseph 

 Cohen. 



Library: 1,000 volumes. Emphasis, pharmacy 

 and allied subjects. 



877. Maryland Psychiatric Society. President: 

 Irene L. Hitchman, Springfield State Hospital, 

 Sykesville, Md. Term expires April 1961. 

 Secretary-Treasurer : Gerald D. Klee, Psy- 

 chiatric Institute, University Hospital, Balti- 

 more 1, Md. Term expires April 1961. 



History: Organized 1949. Society is District 

 Branch of American Psychiatric Association, 

 and Neuropsychiatric Section of Baltimore City 

 Medical Society. 



Purpose: To promote the science, art, and 

 practice of psychiatry. 



Membership: Full members, 141, primarily 

 in psychiatric practice for three years, with 

 residence and license in Maryland ; Associate, 

 25, physicians in practice of psychiatry who do 



