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Sustaining members, 238; Annual active, 14,080; 

 Student, 249; Corporation, 8; Life, 440; Bene- 

 factors, 3 ; Patrons, 2 ; Honorary Life, 83, 

 elected in recognition of scientific achievement ; 

 Gold Card Members, 1. Total membership 

 15,104. 



Meetings: Annual. Monthly meetings of 

 Divisions and Sections. 



Professional activities: George Frederick 

 Kunz Award, irregular intervals, $300, for most 

 acceptable paper in geology and mineralogy; 

 A. Cressy Morrison Awards in Natural Science, 

 annual, two, of $400 each, for most acceptable 

 papers in fields of science covered by Academy ; 

 Boris Pregel Award in Field of Nuclear Physics 

 and Nuclear Engineering, $500, for most ac- 

 ceptable paper embodying results of research 

 in that field ; D. B. Steinman Award for Re- 

 search in Structural Engineering, $500, for most 

 acceptable original paper from Academy member- 

 ship in field of pure or applied research in struc- 

 tural engineering, in related science of aero- 

 dynamics, or analysis and design of civil engi- 

 neering structures. The income from all of the 

 following list of endowment funds is used for sci- 

 entific publications : John James Audubon Fund, 

 established 1893, capital $2,500; John Strong 

 Newberry Fund, established 1897, capital $1,000; 

 Centennial Endowment Fund, established 1917, 

 capital $7,934 ; Ralph Winfred Tower Memorial 

 Fund, established 1926, capital $12,728; Roy 

 Waldo Miner Memorial Publication Fund, 

 capital $7,753; Nathaniel Lord Britton Fund, 

 established 1936, capital $30,039.77; George 

 Herbert Sherwood Memorial Fund, established 

 1940, capital $7,000; Thomas Lincoln Casey 

 Fund, established 1954, capital $213,461.99. 



Publications: Annals, irregular, current vol- 

 ume : 86, free to members. Monthly Program, 

 October through May, current volume : 10, free 

 to members. Transactions, eight annually, cur- 

 rent volume : 22, $7, free to members. 



1099. New York Association of Consulting 

 Engineers, Inc. 115 East 40th Street, New 

 York 16, N. Y. President: John F. Hennessy, 

 Jr., 144 East 39th Street, New York 16, N. Y. 

 Term expires December 1960. Executive 

 Secretary: R. Joan Faherty. Term indefinite. 



History: Organized December 1923; merged 

 with Structural Engineers Society of New York 

 1954. Committees : Ten permanent. Divisions : 

 Mechanical and Electrical ; Structural and Civil. 



Purpose: To maintain high ethical standards 

 and practice, and to promote satisfactory busi- 

 ness relations between members and clients ; to 

 interchange experience for mutual benefit. 



Membership: Persons, firms, or corporations 

 engaged in independent practice of professional 

 engineering, planning and designing works for 



construction industry, from principal office in 

 State of New York and within sixty miles of 

 City Hall, New York, and so engaged for at 

 least two years. Members must have no associa- 

 tion involving conflict of interest with indepen- 

 dent practice. Non-resident members, not en- 

 titled to vote or hold office because of removal 

 from geographical limits. Life members, ex- 

 empt from dues and assessments, and not 

 entitled to vote or hold office, are retired 

 members without other profession or business. 

 62 member firms. 

 Meetings: Annual; monthly. 



1100. New York Association of Teachers of 

 Biological Sciences. President: Stanley L. 

 Weinberg, Biology Department, DeWitt 

 Clinton High School, Bronx, N. Y. Term 

 expires June 1961. Corresponding Secretary: 

 Albert L. Goldberg. Franklin K. Lane High 

 School, Brooklyn, N. Y. Term expires June 

 1961. 



History: Founded 1899; affiliated with Feder- 

 ation of Science Teaching Associations of New 

 York City. Committees : Biology Charts, Bi- 

 ology Congress, Conservation, Science Luncheon. 



Purpose: To improve methods of teaching 

 biology; to educate the public in biological 

 aspects of public welfare. 



Membership : Open to biology teachers in New 

 York metropolitan area; Associate membership 

 open to college students and others interested in 

 biology teaching. Total membership 500. 



Alec tings: Eight annually. 



Professional activities: Graduation awards in 

 public high schools of New York ; Paul B. Mann 

 Biology Congress for students ; publication of 

 Adventures in Biology, a laboratory and project 

 manual. 



1101. New York Diabetes Association, Inc. 



104 East 40th Street, New York 16, N. Y. 

 President: Winifred C. Loughlin, 35 East 3Sth 

 Street. New York 16, N. Y. Term expires 

 November 1960. Secretary: Lawrence E. 

 Hinkle, Jr., 525 East 68th Street, New York 

 21, N. Y. Term expires November 1960. 

 Executive Director: Abraham Bluestein. 

 Term indefinite. 



History: Founded 1932, as a committee of the 

 Committee on Public Health of the New York 

 Academy of Medicine ; name changed to present 

 title 1934; affiliated with American Diabetes 

 Association. Affiliated Societies : Clinical 

 Society; Lay Society. Committees: Camp for 

 Diabetic Children ; Research ; Professional Edu- 

 cation; Hospital Clinics; Lay Education and 

 Detection. 



