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SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL SOCIETIES 



Montreal, Toronto. Divisions in the United 

 States : Button, Cellular Plastics, Epoxy Resin 

 Formulators, Fluorocarbons, Garden Hose, 

 Housewares Manufacturers, Industrial Contain- 

 er, Machinery, Melamine Dinnerware, Mold 

 Makers, Molders Management, Plastics for 

 Tooling, Polyethylene Film, Polystyrene Wall 

 Tile, Reinforced Plastics, Sheet Forming, Shoe, 

 Thermoplastics Pipe, Thermoplastics Structures, 

 Vinyl Dispersions, Vinyl Film Manufacturers, 

 Profile Extruders, Plastic Bottle and Tube 

 Manufacturers Institute, Vinyl-Metal Lamina- 

 tors Institute. Committees in the United States : 

 Accounting and Financial, Code Advisory, Plas- 

 tics Education, Fire Prevention, Domestic Re- 

 frigeration, Engineering and Technical, Food 

 Packaging Materials, Injection Molding Ma- 

 chine Standards, International, 9th National 

 Plastics Exposition, Plastics for Lighting Joint 

 SPI-IES-NEMA, Public Relations, Radio Fre- 

 quency Heating, Safety, Tarifif, Traffic, Polye- 

 thylene Committee on Construction, Industrial 

 and Agricultural Applications, SPI National 

 Conference. 



Purpose: To assemble and disseminate scien- 

 tific, engineering, and general informative data 

 on plastics ; to cooperate with the military and 

 allied departments of the United States and 

 Canadian governments in the furtherance of 

 their plastics projects; to act as an authoritative 

 central forum for member companies ; and to 

 promote actively and advance the application 

 and use of plastics through greater public ac- 

 ceptance and favorable recognition of plastics 

 products. 



Membership: Company members, 1,150, identi- 

 fied with the plastics industry consistent with the 

 by-laws of the Society ; Individual members, 

 2,400, must be an employee of a member com- 

 pany. Total membership 3,550. 



Meetings: Annual. 



Library: 1,000 volumes. 



1382. Society of the Sigma Xi. 56 Hillhouse 

 Avenue, New Haven 11, Conn. President: 

 Frank M. Carpenter, Harvard Biological Lab- 

 oratories, Cambridge 38, Mass. Term expires 

 December 1960. Executive Secretary: Thom- 

 as T. Holme. Term expires December 1963. 



History: Founded at Cornell University 1886, 

 incorporated October 1942. 137 chapters and 

 more than 100 clubs in the leading universities 

 and technical institutions in the United States 

 and Canada, with at least one Group in each 

 of the fifty states, the District of Columbia, 

 Canada and Lebanon. 



Purpose: To encourage original investigation 

 in pure and applied science. 



Membership: Members, any professor, instruc- 

 tor, or other member of the instructional or re- 



search staiif of the institution in which the 

 chapter is located, who has shown noteworthy 

 achievement as an original investigator in some 

 branch of pure or applied science ; or any stu- 

 dent in, or graduate of, the institution in which 

 the chapter is located who has clearly demon- 

 strated ability to pursue independent scientific 

 research in some branch of pure or applied sci- 

 ence ; or any professor, instructor, other investi- 

 gator connected with a degree-granting institu- 

 tion not having a chapter, who would otherwise 

 be eligible ; or any investigator connected with 

 a non-degree-granting institution not having a 

 chapter who would otherwise be eligible, when 

 the nomination by the chapter's Committee on 

 Admissions has been approved by a three- 

 fourths vote of the National Executive Commit- 

 tee. Associate Members : any person who is cur- 

 rently or was during the preceding year a stu- 

 dent in the institution in which the chapter is 

 located and has completed at least three years 

 of work toward a bachelor's degree, and 

 has shown marked excellence in his studies in 

 at least one field of pure or applied science 

 and given evidence of an aptitude for research 

 in one of these fields. Total membership 100,000. 



Meetings: Annual. 



Professional activities: Grants-in-aid. 



Publications: American Scientists, quarterly, 

 current volume : 48, $2.50 domestic, $3 foreign. 

 Editor : Hugh S. Taylor. 



1383. Society of University Surgeons. Presi- 

 dent: H. William Scott, Jr. Vanderbilt Uni- 

 versity Hospital, Nashville, Tenn. Term ex- 

 pires February 1961. Secretary: Ben Eiseman, 

 4200 East Ninth Avenue, Denver 20, Colo. 

 Term expires 1962. 



History: Organized February 1938; incor- 

 ported 1941. Committee: Graduate Training in 

 Surgery. 



Purpose: To advance the art and science of 

 surgery by encouragement of its members to 

 pursue original investigations both in the clinic 

 and in the laboratory, the development of meth- 

 ods of graduate teaching of surgery with par- 

 ticular reference to the resident system, and free 

 and informal interchange of ideas pertaining to 

 the above subjects, insofar as limited member- 

 ship and common aims permit. 



Membership: Open to individuals under forty- 

 five years of age who have occupied a faculty 

 position in a university department of surgery 

 and its affiliated teaching hospital for at least 

 eighteen months following completion of a grad- 

 uate university residency training in surgery in 

 a membership hospital, and who by work as 

 surgeon, teacher, and investigator give promise 

 of a successful career in academic surgery. Total 

 membership 369. 



