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SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL SOCIETIES 



Professional activities: Provides speakers on 

 engineering as a career for programs in second- 

 ary schools and parents' meetings ; operates a 

 scholarship fund combining gifts into bulk 

 amounts which are turned over to the two 

 engineering colleges in Rhode Island for student 

 loans or grants. 



Publications: Engineering, weekly (October 

 to June), current volume: 35, $1.25 to non- 

 members, $.75 to members. Editor: W. C. 

 Russell. 



Library: 1,500 volumes on hydraulics. 



1258. Psychometric Society. Department of 

 Psychology, Washington University, St. 

 Louis, Mo. Secretary: Philip H. Du Bois. 

 Term expires September 30, 1962. 



History: Organized, and affiliated with 

 American Psychological Association, 1935; af- 

 filiated with American Association for the 

 Advancement of Science 1937. 



Purpose: To promote development of psy- 

 chology as a quantitative rational science. 



Membership: Members shall be persons 

 interested in, and able, through training and 

 experience, to contribute to the objectives of 

 this Society. Full Members, 668; Student, 71. 

 Total membership 739. 



Meetings: Annual. 



Publications: Psychometrika, quarterly, cur- 

 rent volume: 25, $14, free to members. Editor: 

 Lyle V. Jones, Psychometric Laboratory, Uni- 

 versity of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, N. C. 



1259. Psychonomic Society, Inc. University of 

 Maryland, College Park, Md. Chairman: 

 Clififord T. Morgan, Department of Psy- 

 chology, University of Wisconsin, Madison 6, 

 Wis. Term expires 1961. Secretary-Treas- 

 urer: William S. Verplanck, Department of 

 Psychology, University of Maryland, College 

 Park, Md. Term expires 1963. 



History: Founded in Chicago, December 31, 

 1959 ; incorporated in Madison, Wisconsin, April 

 1, 1960. 



Purpose: To promote the communication of 

 scientific research in psychology and allied 

 sciences. 



Membership: Members, 708, persons qualified 

 to conduct and to supervise scientific research 

 in psychology or allied sciences, must hold the 

 Ph. D. or equivalent, and must have published 

 significant research other than the doctoral 

 dissertation. 



Meetings: Annual. 



1260. Public Health Association of New York 

 City. P. O. Box 476, New York 21, N. Y. 



President: Morton D. Schweitzer, School of 

 Public Health and Administrative Medicine, 

 Columbia University, 600 West 168th Street, 

 New York 32, N. Y. Term expires July 1, 

 1961. Presidcnt-Elect: George James, New 

 York City Department of Health, 125 Worth 

 Street, New York 13, N. Y. Secretary-Treas- 

 urer: Frances Ann McVey, Cornell University- 

 New York Hospital School of Nursing, 1320 

 York Avenue, New York 21, N. Y. Term 

 expires July 1, 1961. 



History: Organized May 18, 1936, as a local 

 affiliate of the American Public Health Asso- 

 ciation. 



Purpose: To provide a forum for discussion 

 of public health problems and the new advances 

 in medical and sanitary science. 



Membership: Open to any person interested in 

 public health, subject to approval by the Execu- 

 tive Board. Total membership 250-300. 



Meetings: Quarterly. 



1261. Public Health Cancer Association of 

 America. President: Edward M. Cohart, 

 Associate Professor, Yale University Depart- 

 ment of Public Health, New Haven, Conn. 

 Term expires November 2, 1960. Secretary- 

 Treasurer: Lewis C. Robbins, Chief, Cancer 

 Control Program, Public Health Service, 

 Washington 25, D. C. Term expires Novem- 

 ber 2, 1960. 



History: Organized October 1941. 



Purpose: To serve as the national association 

 of professional workers in cancer control ; to 

 advance the art and science of cancer control. 



Membership: Active, membership limited to 

 employees in official, tax-supported cancer 

 programs, and instructors concerned with cancer 

 education in schools of medicine, dentistry, 

 nursing and public health ; Associate, other 

 individuals, professional and lay, interested in 

 cancer control ; Fellows, include Active members 

 with five years experience as described for 

 Active Members and selected by vote of the 

 Executive Committee. Total membership 7i. 



Meetings: Annual. 



1262. Public Health Federation of the Cincin- 

 nati Area. Cincinnati 2, Ohio. President: 

 Leon Saks, 641 Doctors Building, 19 Garfield 

 Place, Cincinnati 2, Ohio. Term expires 

 December 31, 1960. Executive Secretary: 

 Sewall Milliken, 312 West 9th Street, Cin- 

 cinnati 2, Ohio. Term indefinite. 



History: Established in 1917; program car- 

 ried out by divisional councils on basis of special 

 health interest. Present councils include Cancer 

 Control, Community Dental Health, Health 



