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SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL SOCIETIES 



December 12, 1946. Committees : Conservation 

 Committee for Micronesia ; Honolulu ; Inverte- 

 brate Consultants Committee for the Pacific ; 

 Southeast Asia; and West Coast Advisory. 



Purpose: To aid the scientists of America 

 who wish to engage in scientific investigations 

 for which there is a need in the Pacific area; 

 to advise governmental and other agencies on 

 scientific matters pertaining to the Pacific ; and 

 to further international cooperation in the field 

 of Pacific science. 



Membership: Members are appointees of the 

 National Academy of Sciences — National Re- 

 search Council and the Pacific Science Board. 

 12 members and Executive Director (ex officio). 



Meetings: Annual. 



Professional activities: Financial support is 

 derived from government contract funds, as 

 well as private foundations, institutions, and 

 individual donors. 



1207. Paleontological Research Institution. 109 



Dearborn Place, Ithaca, N. Y. President: 

 Norman E. Weisbord, Florida State Univer- 

 sity, P. O. Box 1082, Tallahassee, Fla. Term 

 expires October 1960. Director: Katherine 

 Van Winkle Palmer. Term indefinite. 



History: Founded in 1932; provisional charter 

 granted by the University of the State of New 

 York in 1933 ; absolute charter granted in 1936. 

 Recently affiliated with the American Associa- 

 tion for the Advancement of Science. 



Purpose: To increase and disseminate knowl- 

 edge in the field of invertebrate paleontology, 

 and to collect and preserve type material for the 

 promotion of paleontologic research. 



Membership: Open to persons over 21 years 

 of age, interested in paleontology and related 

 subjects, both professional and amateur. Ama- 

 teur membership is limited to persons sym- 

 pathetic to the purposes of the Institution, whose 

 interests lie largely in the field of invertebrate 

 paleontology, whose ability and training enable 

 them to pursue independent study, and whose 

 research conforms to the high standards of the 

 organization. 



Meetings: Semiannual. 



Professional activities: Laboratory maintained 

 at headquarters ; grants from the Geological So- 

 ciety of America, National Science Foundation, 

 and American Philosophical Society. 



Publications: Bulletins of American Paleon- 

 tology, irregular, current volume: 41, $16. 

 Palaeontographica Americana, irregular, cur- 

 rent volume : 4, $20. Prices estimated. Editor : 

 Katherine V. W. Palmer. 



Library: 11,600 volumes on paleontology. 



1208. Paleontological Society. President: Nor- 

 man D. Newell, American Museum of Nat- 



ural History, New York 24, N. Y. Term ex- 

 pires November 1961. Secretary: H. B. Whitt- 

 ington. Museum of Comparative Zoology, 

 Harvard University, Cambridge 39, Mass. 

 Term expires November 1961. 



History: Organized December 1908. Coop- 

 erates with the Society of Economic Paleontol- 

 ogists and mineralogists in the journal publica- 

 tion ; publication of three issues is with the 

 assistance of the Geological Society of America. 

 Active Pacific Coast branch ; represented on 

 Joint Committee on Invertebrate Paleontology 

 which is producing the Treatise on Invertebrate 

 Paleontology. 



Purpose: To further the science of paleontol- 

 ogy. 



Membership: Open to any person, profes- 

 sional or amateur, with an interest in pale- 

 ontology. Members, 847. Correspondents, out- 

 standing foreign paleontologists, 14. Total mem- 

 bership 861. 



Meetings: Annual, with the Geological So- 

 ciety. 



Publications: Journal of Paleontology, bi- 

 monthly, current volume: 34, $15. Editor: R. V. 

 Kesling, University of Michigan. 



1209. Pan American Cancer Cytology Society. 



President: Robert E. L. Nesbitt, Jr., Albany 

 Medical College of Union University, Albany, 

 N. Y. Term expires 1962 or 1963. Executive 

 Secretary: Herbert Friedman, Los Angeles, 

 Calif. Term expires 1962 or 1963. 



History: Formed in 1957 at conclusion of Pan 

 American Cancer Cytology Congress, with rep- 

 resentatives of fifteen countries attending. 



Purpose: To develop, promote and extend the 

 use of cytologic diagnosis, training and research. 



Membership: Members, approximately 600, 

 honorary fellowships and cytologist members 

 elected on basis of scientific attainments. 



Meetings: Every two or three years. 



Professional activities: Fellowships awarded 

 for outstanding achievements, and awards pre- 

 sented for unusual service to the society. 



Publications: Cancer Cytology, quarterly, 

 current volume : 3, $6. Editor : J. Ernest Ayre. 



1210. Pan-Pacific Surgical Association. 230 



Alexander Young Building, Honolulu 13, 

 Hawaii. Director General: F. J. Pinkerton. 

 Term indefinite. Executive Secretary: Peggie 

 Gladding. Term indefinite. 



History: Founded 1929; first Congress at- 

 tended by 205 physicians from seven Pacific 

 area countries. 



Purpose: To bring together surgeons from 

 countries bordering on the Pacific Ocean for the 



