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Professional activities: Strittmatter Award, 

 gold medal and certificate awarded annually to 

 physician rendering a service resounding to the 

 credit of the medical profession, capital $5,000; 

 Da Costa Fund, provides an honorarium for a 

 speaker on some surgical subject, capital $2,000. 

 Post-Graduate Institute, held four days each 

 year to provide postgraduate instruction to 

 physicians. 



Publications: Philadelphia Medicine, weekly, 

 $5, free to members. Editor : Dorothy Ann 

 Harrison. 



Library: 4,250 volumes. 



1235. Philadelphia Mineralogical Society. 5827 



North Lawrence Street, Philadelphia 20, Pa. 

 President: Paul Seel, 3 Cynwyd Road, Bala- 

 Cynwyd, Pa. Term expires October 1960. 

 Secretary: David Travis. Term expires Octo- 

 ber 1960. 



History: Organized 1892 as Student's Minera- 

 logical Society ; name changed to present title 

 1896. 



Purpose: Cvdtivation and study of the science 

 of mineralogy. 



Membership: Open to persons with interest 

 in field of mineralogy. Total membership 125. 



Meetings: Monthly except July and August. 



1236. Philadelphia Neurological Society. 19 



South 22nd Street, Philadelphia 3, Pa. Presi- 

 dent: Henry A. Shenkin, Suite 111, Centennial 

 Building, Front and Lehigh Streets, Phila- 

 delphia 24, Pa. Term expires January 8, 1961. 

 Secretary: Richard G. Berry, 1025 Walnut 

 Street, Philadelphia 7, Pa. Term indefinite. 



History: Organized 1883. 



Purpose: To promote the study of neurology. 



Membership: Active, 138, physicians engaged 

 in the study of neurological science in one of 

 its branches ; Senior, 4 ; Out-of-town, 13 ; 

 Honorary, 19. Total membership 174. 



Meetings: Monthly, October through May. 



1237. Philadelphia Roentgen Ray Society. Col- 

 lege of Physicians, 19 South 22nd Street, 

 Philadelphia, Pa. President: Herbert Stauflfer, 

 Temple University Hospital, Broad and On- 

 tario Streets, Philadelphia, Pa. Term expires 

 September 30, 1960. Secretary: Robert B. 

 Punch, Germantown Hospital, Penn and 

 Wister Streets, Philadelphia, Pa. Term ex- 

 pires September 30, 1960. 



History: Organized February 2, 1905. Con- 

 stitution and By-laws enacted December 1, 1913; 

 incorporated as The Philadelphia Roentgen Ray 

 Society, Inc. on October 2, 1924. 



Purpose: The friendly personal consideration 

 of matters of mutual interest regarding medical 

 radiology and advancement of standards in the 

 science and practice of radiology. 



Meuibcrship: Active, 205, citizens of United 

 States licensed in medicine, members of a county 

 medical society and diplomates of American 

 Board of Radiology; Associate, 15, physicists, 

 teachers and others whose vocation improves 

 radiology ; Corresponding, 28, previous active 

 members no longer in Philadelphia ; Honorary, 

 4, those whose service to radiology deemed 

 worthy of honor ; Inactive, 5, previous active 

 members retired or unable to practice because 

 of illness. 



Meetings: Monthly October through May. 



Professional activities: Annual Memorial Lec- 

 ture presented by an outstanding scientist in 

 radiology or an allied field in honor of Dr. 

 Henry K. Pancoast, or one of the founding 

 members of the society. Support the convention 

 of the Pennsylvania Society of X-Ray Tech- 

 nicians when it is held in Philadelphia. 



1238. Philadelphia Tuberculosis and Health 

 Association. 311 South Juniper Street, Phila- 

 delphia 7, Pa. President: William W. 

 Tomlinson, Temple University, Philadelphia 

 22, Pa. Term expires April 1961. Director: 

 Thomas E. Bramble. Term indefinite. 



History: Organized April 1, 1919; incor- 

 porated December 1920 as Philadelphia Health 

 Council and Tuberculosis Committee ; name 

 changed to present title 1941 ; affiliate. National 

 Tuberculosis Association, and Pennsylvania 

 Tuberculosis and Health Society. Committees : 

 Campaign and Public Information, Case Find- 

 ing, Health Education, Social and Medical 

 Research, Special Services. 



Purpose: Prevention of tuberculosis and pro- 

 motion of health in Philadelphia. 



Membership: Composed of Board of Directors 

 of thirty members elected for three years. Mem- 

 bership self perpetuating. 



Meetings: Semiannual. 



Publications: Annual Report. 



1239. Philosophical Society of Washington. 



Cosmos Club, Washington 6, D. C. Presi- 

 dent: Louis R. Maxwell, U. S. Naval Ord- 

 nance Laboratory, White Oak, Silver Spring, 

 Md. Term expires December 1960. Corres- 

 ponding Secretary: Frangois N. Frenkiel, 

 Applied Mathematics Laboratory, David 

 Taylor Model Basin, Washington 7, D. C. 

 Term expires December 1961. 



History: Founded March 13, 1871 ; incor- 

 porated in the District of Columbia May 20, 

 1901. 



