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SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL SOCIETIES 



Purpose: Dissemination of information on 

 diabetes, promotion of research, and of lay and 

 patient education, improvement of care of dia- 

 betic persons, and maintenance of a summer 

 camp for diabetic children. 



Membership: Clinical Society, 325, doctors 

 of medicine ; Lay Society, 300, open to all friends 

 and relatives of diabetics ; Camp Nyda Alumni, 

 400. Total membership 1,025. 



Meetings: Annual. 



Professional activities: Research fund ; metab- 

 olic research on juvenile diabetes; physician 

 education through open Clinical Society Meet- 

 ings, and Annual Symposium on recent advances 

 in diabetes ; lay diabetic education by lectures 

 to Lay Society by doctors of medicine ; Medal 

 to lay people for achievement in work for or by 

 a diabetic. 



Publications: Current Concepts in Diabetes 

 Mellitus. Editor: Max Ellenberg. Newsletter, 

 Clinical Society. Editor: Martin G. Goldner. 

 Newsletter, Lay Society. Editor : Mrs. Abraham 

 Steigerwald. NYDA News. Editor: Milton B. 

 Handel sman. 



1 102. New York Entomological Society. Ameri- 

 can Museum of Natural History, New York 

 24, N. Y. President: Nicholas Shoumatoflf, 

 Bedford, N. Y. Term expires 1962. Executive 

 Secretary: Raymond Brush, 1 University 

 Place, New York, N. Y. Term expires 1962. 



History: Organized June 29, 1892; incor- 

 porated February 1893 ; reincorporated Feb- 

 ruary 17, 1943. 



Purpose: Advancement and cultivation of the 

 science of entomology. 



Membership: Open to those interested in 

 entomology. Total membership approximately 

 300. 



Meetings: Semimonthly, October to May. 



Publications: Journal, quarterly, current vol- 

 ume : 68, $8, members $5. Editor: William S. 

 Creighton. 



1 103. New York Microscopical Society. Central 

 Park West at 79th Street, New York 24, 

 N. Y. President: Burton Dezendorf, 401 Has- 

 brouck Boulevard, Oradell, N. J. Term ex- 

 pires June 30, 1961. Vice President: Miss 

 Virginia L. Thomas, 44 Rutgers Place, Pas- 

 saic, N. J. Term expires June 30, 1961. 



History: Organized and incorporated 1877. 

 Annual Members Exhibition since 1877. 



Purpose: Advancement of theoretical and 

 applied microscopy. 



Membership: Annual members, 192, over 

 twenty-one years of age, active interest in 

 microscopy; Junior, 20, under twenty-one years 



of age, active interest in microscopy; Life, 39, 

 annual member twenty-five years ; Fellows, 49, 

 honor conferred in recognition of distinctive 

 achievement in microscopical science or of out- 

 standing service to this Society. Total mem- 

 bership 300. Since World War 11, member- 

 ship has been composed of sixty per cent pro- 

 fessional and forty per cent medical and ama- 

 teur microscopists. 



Meetings: Semimonthly, October through 

 May. 



Professional activities: Biennial Symposium 

 on Microscopy ; Ashby Award, this Society's 

 highest ; Junior Study Group ; Medal for first 

 place in Annual Members Exhibition which has 

 been held for eighty-four consecutive years. 



Publications: Yearbook, current volume: 8, 

 free to members. 



Library: 1,000 volumes. Subject emphasis: 

 Microscopy. 



1104. New York Neurological Society. 700 



West 168th Street, New York 32, N. Y. 

 President: H. Houston Merritt. Term ex- 

 pires 1961. Secretary-Treasurer: Rollo J. 

 Masselink. Term indefinite. 



History: Organized January 10, 1872; reor- 

 ganized April 6, 1874; incorporated April 20, 

 1882. 



Purpose: Advancement of the science of 

 medicine in its relation to the nervous system. 



Membership: Members must have graduated 

 from approved medical schools, completed gen- 

 eral medical or surgical internships, had ade- 

 quate specialized training in neurology, psy- 

 chiatry, neurosurgery, neuropathology, or their 

 cognate sciences, and at least three years' prac- 

 tice or laboratory work in one of these spe- 

 cialties, and must be members of hospital or 

 clinic staffs, or be engaged in teaching in sub- 

 ject field. Total membership 250. 



Meetings: Monthly, October through May. 



1105. New York Pathological Society. 2 East 

 103rd Street, New York 29, N. Y. President: 

 Harry P. Zimmerman, Montefiore Hospital, 

 New York 67, N. Y. Term expires July 1, 

 1961. Secretary: Hans Popper, Mt. Sinai 

 Hospital, New York 29, N. Y. Term expires 

 July 1, 1961. 



History: Organized 1844; incorporated 1886. 



Purpose: Improvement of members in path- 

 ology, and in diagnosis and treatment of diseases. 



Membership: Must be physicians trained in 

 pathology at least two years, or must be en- 

 gaged in such medical scientific work as bacteri- 

 ology, immunology, physiology, biochemistry, or 

 veterinary medicine for equivalent periods, or 

 must be graduates of medicine at least four years 



