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collection and preservation of materials pertain- 

 ing thereto. 



Membership: Open to persons interested in 

 natural history. Adults, 514 ; Juniors, 693. Total 

 membership 1,207. 



Meetings : Semiannual. 



Publications: Transactions, irregular, current 

 volume : 12, Occasional Papers, irregular, cur- 

 rent volume : 10. Memoirs, irregular, current 

 volume : 2. Editor : Reid Moran. Bulletin, 

 monthly, current volume : 327, free to members. 

 Editor : George E. Lindsay. 



Library: 80,000 volumes on natural history 

 and geology. 



1299. San Francisco Radiological Society. 450 



Sutter Street, San Francisco, Calif. Presi- 

 dent: J. F, Huffman, Stonestown Medical 

 Building, San Francisco, Calif. Term expires 

 October 1960. Executive Secretary: Merrell 

 A. Sisson. Term expires October 1960. 



History: Organized 1951. 



Purpose: To promote the economic and scien- 

 tific aspects of radiology. 



Membership: Open to any duly licensed phy- 

 sician practicing in San Francisco who is an 

 active member in good standing of the San 

 Francisco Medical Society, and who limits his 

 practice to radiology. Total membership 57. 



Meetings: Quarterly. 



1300. San Joaquin Geological Society. J. A. 



Dunwoody, c/o Tidewater Oil Company, 1809 

 19th Street, Bakersfield, Calif. Term expires 

 November 1960. Secretary-Treasurer: J. S. 

 Bigelow, c/o Western Gulf Oil Company, 

 P. O. Box 1392, Bakersfield, Calif. Term ex- 

 pires November 1960. 



History: Organized January 1941, affiliated 

 with the Pacific Section of the American Asso- 

 ciation of Petroleum Geologists. 



Purpose: To promote interest in the geological 

 sciences. 



Membership: Automatically conferred upon 

 residents of the area who are members of the 

 Pacific Section of the American Association of 

 Petroleum Geologists. Total membership 200. 



Meetings: Monthly. 



1301. Science Service, Inc. 1719 N Street, N. W., 

 Washington 6, D. C. President: Leonard Car- 

 michael, Smithsonian Institution, Washington 

 25, D. C. Term expires April 1961. Director: 

 Watson Davis. Term indefinite. 



History: Organized and incorporated 1921. 

 Purpose: The popularization of science. 

 Membership: Fifteen members of the Board 



of Trustees, nominated by the National Acad- 

 emy of Sciences-National Research Council, 

 the American Association for the Advancement 

 of Science, the E. W. Scripps Estate, and the 

 journalistic profession. 



Meetings: Annual. 



Professional activities: Disseminate scientific 

 information by providing news service to news- 

 papers, journals, and scientific institutions. Inter- 

 lingua Division devoted to promoting the inter- 

 national auxiliary language. Sponsors : Science 

 Clubs of America, Westinghouse Science Schol- 

 arships and Awards, National Science Fair- 

 International. 



Publications: Science News Letter, weekly, 

 current volume : 78, $5.50 a year. Chemistry, 

 monthly September through April, current vol- 

 ume: Z2>, $4. Editor: Watson Davis. THINGS 

 of science, monthly, $5. Edited by staff of 

 Science Service. 



Library: 21,000 volumes. 



1302. Science Teachers Association of New 

 York State, Inc. President: Miss Josephine 

 Bordonaro, Onondaga Valley Academy, Syra- 

 cuse, N. Y. Term expires August 31, 1961. 

 Secretary: Mrs. Mary Archer, Monroe High 

 School, Rochester, N. Y. Term expires 

 August 31, 1961. 



History: Organized 1896. 



Purpose: To further American democratic 

 procedures in public and private schools ; to 

 provide a forum for discussion of local, state, 

 national, and international problems in science 

 education ; to promote research in science educa- 

 tion, science teaching, science curricula in the 

 schools ; and training of science teachers in 

 colleges and universities. 



Membership: Open to persons engaged in sci- 

 ence teaching in New York State, and to all 

 persons on leave of absence, or who have re- 

 tired from science teaching, or who have con- 

 tinued science teaching in another state, provid- 

 ing such persons were active members in good 

 standing when the leave of absence, transfer, 

 or retirement took place. Total membership ap- 

 proximately 1,500. 



Meetings: Semiannual. 



Publications : Science Teachers Bulletin, semi- 

 annual, $1. Editor: Robert Love, Alfred, N. Y. 



1303. Science Teachers of New England. Presi- 

 dent: Frank Carroll, 7 Oakton Avenue, Dor- 

 chester, Mass. Term expires 1961. Secretary: 

 Sister Francis Regis, Fontbonne Academy, 930 

 Brook Road, Milton, Mass. Term expires 

 1961. 



History: Organized May 1952. 



