UNITED STATES 



351 



Meetings: Semiannual. 



Publications: Journal of Projective Tech- 

 niques, quarterly, current volume: 24, $8. 

 Editor: Bruno Klopfer. 



1331. Society for Promoting International Sci- 

 entific Relations. 206 West 104th Street, Suite 

 42, New York 25, N. Y. President: David 

 Nachmansohn. Term expires March 1961. 

 Executive Vice-Presidetit: Henry Gold- 

 schmiedt. Term expires March 1961. 



History: Organized 1940, formerly American 

 Society of European Chemists. 



Purpose: To promote international scientific 

 relations through exchange of visits between 

 scientists of the United States and those of 

 foreign institutions, to arrange lectures, and to 

 exchange useful information. 



Membership: Total membership 350. 



Meetings: Five times annually. 



1332. Society for Research in Child Develop- 

 ment, Inc. Purdue University, Lafayette, Ind. 

 President: VV. M. Krogman, University of 

 Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa. Term expires 

 March 1961. Secretary: Dale B. Harris, 

 Pennsylvania State University, University 

 Park, Pa. Term expires March 1961. 



History: Organized June 1933 at the Uni- 

 versity of Chicago, following a Conference on 

 Child Development. Fields represented were 

 pediatrics, psychology, psychiatry, anthropology, 

 nutrition, physiology, sociology, and education. 



Purpose: To further research in child devel- 

 opment by means of meetings, conferences, pub- 

 lications, and the distribution of research infor- 

 mation; to encourage the interdisciplinary 

 consideration of theoretical and methodological 

 problems of research in child development; to 

 stimulate the exploration of implications of re- 

 search findings for instruction in the area of 

 child development. 



Membership: Members, 570, open to persons 

 who are actively engaged in research in child 

 development or any of the basic sciences related 

 thereto, persons who are actively engaged in 

 teaching undergraduate or graduate courses in 

 child development and who have demonstrated 

 their capacity for leadership in the area by 

 publication through appropriate channels, and 

 persons who are actively engaged in furthering 

 the stated purposes of the Society. Student 

 Members, 16, persons who at the time of holding 

 membership in the Society are engaged in at 

 least half-time graduate study relative to the 

 purposes of the Society. Emeritus Members, 39, 

 persons who have reached the retirement age 

 of 65 and who have at least ten years standing 

 in the Society. 



Meetings: Semi-annual. 



Publications: Child Development, quarterly, 

 current volume: 31, $8. Child Development 

 Abstracts and Bibliography, three times yearly, 

 current volume: 34, $6. Monographs of the 

 Society, irregular, current volume : 25, $6. 

 Editor : William E. Martin. 



1333. Society for Social Responsibility in Sci- 

 ence. 900 Woods Road, Southampton, Pa. 

 President: Victor Paschkis, 501 West 123rd 

 Street, New York 27, N. Y. Term expires 

 September 1961. 



History: Organized September 1949. Divi- 

 sions : Education, Occupation. 



Purpose: To induce, by education and ex- 

 ample, individual scientists and engineers to 

 recognize a personal responsibility for the 

 anticipated consequence to society of their work ; 

 to always exercise their profession for the 

 benefit of humanity, and thus to provide oppor- 

 tunities for scientists and engineers to seek 

 alternatives to violence in intergroup relations; 

 to discuss their responsibilities, imposed by 

 their individual consciences, with regard to 

 refraining from the preparation and use of 

 weapons for the destruction of human life. 



Membership: Member, 475, open to men or 

 women educated in the field of pure or applied 

 science, including medicine and engineering; 

 Associate, 60, open to men or women in 

 sympathy with statement of purpose who do not 

 necessarily subscribe to it in full ; no restrictions 

 regarding occupation or profession. Total mem- 

 bership 535. 



Meetings: Annual. 



Publications: Newsletter, monthly, current 

 issues : 89-100, free. 



1334. Society for the Advancement of Space 

 Travel. President: Rinehart S. Potts, 210 

 East Courtland Street, Philadelphia 20, Pa. 

 Term indefinite. Secretary: Thomas E. 

 Purdom, 2nd Med. Tk. Battalion, 69th Armor, 

 2nd Infantry Division, Fort Benning, Ga. 

 Term indefinite. 



History: Formed in 1954; joined American 

 Astronautical Federation 1956. 



Purpose: To advance space travel by study 

 of the human factors (sociological and psy- 

 chological) involved. 



Membership: Ability and willingness to con- 

 tribute actively of time and effort to committee 

 work. Total membership 100. 



Publications: Frontier, irregular. Editor: 

 Dale R. Smith. 



