UNITED STATES 



367 



Meetings: Annual. 



Professional activities: Interchange of scien- 

 tific information and supervision of residency 

 training programs. 



1384. Society of Vertebrate Paleontology. Presi- 

 dent: Claude W. Hibbard, Museum of Paleon- 

 tology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 

 Mich. Term expires November 1960. Secre- 

 tary-Treasurer: Robert H. Denison, Chicago 

 Natural History Museum, Chicago 5, 111. Term 

 expires November 1960. 



History: Organized December 1940 by the 

 group who had functioned previously as a sec- 

 tion of vertebrate paleontology in the Paleon- 

 tological Society. 



Purpose: To promote the science of vertebrate 

 paleontology, and to serve the common interest 

 and facilitate the cooperation of all persons con- 

 cerned with the history, evolution, comparative 

 anatomy and taxonomy of vertebrate animals, 

 as well as the field occurrence, collection and 

 study of fossil vertebrates and the stratigraphy 

 of the beds in which they are found. 



Membership: Open to all persons who are 

 twenty-one or more years of age, and who are 

 interested in any aspect of the science of verte- 

 brate paleontology. Members, 395 ; Foreign, ^6 ; 

 Honorary, 13. Total membership 494. 



Meetings: Annual. 



Publications: News Bulletin, three times 

 yearly, current volume : 60, $2. Editor : Nelda 

 E. Wright, Museum of Comparative Zoology, 

 Harvard University, Cambridge 38, Mass. Bib- 

 liography of Vertebrate Paleontology, annual, 

 current volume : 58-59, $0.50. Editor : Rachel H. 

 Nichols, American Museum of Natural His- 

 tory, New York 24, N. Y. 



1385. Society of Woman Geographers. 1216 

 Connecticut Avenue, Washington 6, D. C. 

 President: Marion I. Stirling. Term expires 

 May 1963. Secretary: Benita S. Harris. Term 

 indefinite. 



History: Organized March 1925. Sections: 

 New York, Chicago, Washington, San Fran- 

 cisco. 



Purpose: To form a medium of contact be- 

 tween traveled women engaged in geographical 

 work and its allied arts and sciences ; to further 

 geographical work in all its branches ; to spread 

 geographical knowledge; to encourage geo- 

 graphical research. 



Membership: Active Members, 300, traveled 

 women, residing in the United States and Can- 

 ada, who have done distinctive work, thereby 

 adding to the world's knowledge concerning 

 the countries on which they have specialized, 

 and have published or produced a record of their 



work; Associate, 50, widely traveled, interested 

 in geographical research ; Corresponding, 50, 

 same as Active Members, but residing outside 

 the United States. Total membership 400. 



Meetings: Triennial. 



Professional activities: Fellowship adminis- 

 tered by Columbia University. 



Publications: Bulletin, triennial. 



1386. Society of Women Engineers. 29 West 

 39th Street, New York 18, N. Y. President: 

 Catherine W. Eiden, 208 West Washington 

 Street, Chicago 6, 111. Term expires July 1961. 

 Secretary: Elizabeth Plunkett, 905 South 

 200th Street, Seattle 88, Wash. Term expires 

 July 1961. 



History: Organized 1949, incorporated in the 

 District of Columbia February, 1952. Sections : 

 Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, Connecti- 

 cut, Denver, Detroit, Hartford, Houston, Los 

 Angeles, New York, Pacific Northwest, Phila- 

 delphia, Pittsburgh, St. Louis, San Francisco 

 Bay, Washington. 



Pxirpose: To inform the public of the quali- 

 fications, abilities, and achievements of women 

 engineers, to bring about the better utilization of 

 engineering talent for the economic and social 

 benefit of humanity, to encourage women with 

 suitable aptitudes and interests to enter the 

 engineering profession. 



Membership: Senior Member, those with an 

 engineering degree from a recognized engineer- 

 ing college or university and not less than six 

 years of increasingly important engineering ex- 

 perience, or a degree in a science related to 

 engineering from a recognized college or uni- 

 versity and not less than eight years of in- 

 creasingly important engineering experience, or 

 not less than eleven years of increasingly im- 

 portant engineering experience indicating engi- 

 neering competency and achievement ; Member, 

 an engineering degree from a recognized engi- 

 neering college or university, or a degree in a 

 science related to engineering from a recognized 

 college or university and at least two years 

 of engineering experience indicating engineering 

 competency and achievement, or not less than 

 five years of engineering experience indicating 

 engineering competency and achievement ; Asso- 

 ciate, employment in or training for fields re- 

 lated to engineering and interest in the advance- 

 ment of engineering; Student, those enrolled in 

 a recognized college or university pursuing a 

 course of study leading to a degree in engi- 

 neering or a science related to engineering. Total 

 membership 700. 



Meetings: Annual. 



Professional activties: SWE Achievement An- 

 nual Award, Professional Guidance and Edu- 

 cation, Lillian Moller Gilbreth Scholarship 



