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SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL SOCIETIES 



1294. St. Louis Academy of General Practice. 



4 North 8th Street, Room 415, St. Louis 1, 

 Mo. President: Eugene W. Hall, 116a South 

 Florissant Street, St. Louis 35, Mo. Term 

 expires December 31, 1960. Executive Secre- 

 tary: Miss Eleanore Schmied. Term 

 indefinite. 



History: Chartered in 1948; component chap- 

 ter of the American Academy of General 

 Practice. 



Purpose: Advancement of medical science, 

 private and public health. 



Membership: Candidate must be a graduate 

 of an approved medical school with minimum 

 of one year of rotating internship in an approved 

 hospital. He must have completed one of the 

 following: (1) two years approved residence 

 training ; (2) one year residence, two years 

 practice; (3) three years active practice. He 

 must be a member of his state medical society, 

 licensed to practice medicine and surgery, be 

 of high moral and ethical character, and must 

 have shown interest in continuing his medical 

 advancement by engaging in post-graduate edu- 

 cation. Total membership 190. 



Meetings: Quarterly. 



Professional activities: Four or more pro- 

 grams yearly, presenting outstanding speakers 

 chosen by the Academy and by the two local 

 medical schools. 



Publications: News and Views, monthly, cur- 

 rent volume: 13. Editor: B. W. Finkel. 



1295. St. Louis Medical Society. 3839 Lindell 

 Boulevard, St. Louis, Mo. President: Paul F. 

 Max, 3720 Washington Street, St. Louis, Mo. 

 Term expires January 3, 1961. Secretary: 

 Charles S. Sherwin, 4660 Maryland Street, 

 St. Louis, Mo. Term expires January 3, 1961. 



History: Organized 1835; incorporated 1837. 



Purpose: The advancement of medical and 

 collateral sciences. 



Membership: Active members, 1,003, physicians 

 licensed and registered in Missouri, residing, or 

 practicing in St. Louis; Junior, 153, graduates 

 in medicine, and serving full time internship or 

 residency in a hospital ; Associate, 4, engaged 

 in the pursuit of a medical or an allied science ; 

 Corresponding, 64, membership in medical so- 

 ciety of county of residence, outside St. Louis ; 

 Library, 12, members of society outside St. 

 Louis, and in affiliation with the Missouri State 

 Medical Association or other state medical asso- 

 ciation ; Students, 17, undergraduate in a recog- 

 nized medical school ; Honor, 22, active members 

 who have rendered distinguished service to medi- 

 cine or the community; Life, active members 

 who for reasons of disability are withdrawing 

 from practice, or who have been members of the 



Society for forty-five years, or have reached 

 the age of seventy ; Honorary, distinguished 

 members of the profession not residing in St. 

 Louis ; Retired, 4, members who retire from the 

 practice or teaching of medicine for reasons 

 other than physical disability and/or before they 

 qualify for life membership. Total membership 

 1,372. 



Meetings: Monthly, September through May. 



Publications: Bulletin, semi-monthly, current 

 volume : 68. Editor : Robert W. Kelley. 



1296. St. Louis Society of Internal Medicine. 



President: David M. Skilling, 18 South Kings- 

 highway, St. Louis, Mo. Term expires Jan- 

 uary 1961. Secretary-Treasurer: Barrett L. 

 Taussig, 4500 Olive Street, St. Louis, Mo. 

 Term expires January 1961. 



History: Organized in 1908. 



Purpose: To forward the practice of internal 

 medicine and to foster and improve the standards 

 of internal medicine in St. Louis. 



Membership: Specialists in internal medicine. 

 Limited to 25 active members. Total member- 

 ship 38. 



Meetings: Monthly. 



1297. San Angelo Geological Society. P. O. 



Box 1668, San Angelo, Tex. President: R. D. 

 Johnson, P. O. Box 632, San Angelo, Tex. 

 Term expires April 1961. Executive Secre- 

 tary: W. E. Schulkey, Jr., P. O. Box 1112, 

 San Angelo, Tex. Term expires April 1961. 



History: Organized in fall of 1953. 



Purpose: To promote science of petroleum 

 geology and technology in West Texas. 



Membership: Degree in geology or allied sci- 

 ence and engaged in direct application of geol- 

 ogy, or engaged in geological work during pre- 

 ceding five years. Total membership 70. 



Meetings: Twice monthly. 



Professional activities: Supports ($1,000) 

 American Association of Petroleum Geologists 

 Research Fund. 



1298. San Diego Society of Natural History. 



Balboa Park, San Diego 1, Calif. President: 

 I. N. Lawson, 1048 Myrtle Way, San Diego 

 3, Calif. Term expires August 1961. Execu- 

 tive Director: George E. Lindsay. Term ex- 

 pires August 1961. 



History: Organized and incorporated October 

 9. 1874. Sections: Mammalogy, Ornithology, 

 Botany, Entomology, Conchology, Herpetology, 

 and Mineralogy. 



Purpose: The study of nature, the acquisition 

 and diffusion of scientific knowledge, and the 



