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Membership: Registration as a professional 

 engineer, certification as an engineer-in-training, 

 or graduation from an accredited engineering 

 course. Total membership 6,000. 



Meetings: Annual. 



Professional activities: Three annual scholar- 

 ships of $300 each. 



Publications: Texas Professional Engineer, 

 monthly, current volume: 19, $1.75. Editor: 

 Thomas A. Melody. 



Associate members may not hold office but may 

 participate in all other activities. Total member- 

 ship 622 : Honorary members 3, Associate 

 members 30, Active members 508, Foreign 

 members 81. 



Meetings: Annual. 



Professional activities: Sponsors annual 

 summer course in tissue culture. Bibliography 

 of Research in Tissue Culture being compiled 

 by M. R. Murray. 



1476. Textile Research Institute. Princeton, N. 

 J. President: J. H. Dillon. Term expires 

 March 16, 1961. Secretary-Treasurer: P. C. 

 Alford, Jr. Term expires March 16, 1961. 



History: Founded 1930 as United States In- 

 stitute for Textile Research and incorporated in 

 New York ; name changed to present title 1941 ; 

 incorporated in New Jersey as institute of 

 learning. 



Purpose: To conduct long range fundamental 

 research for benefit of all branches of the textile 

 industry; to train scientists for this work and 

 disseminate information gained. 



Membership: Personal members, 250; Com- 

 pany members, 90. 



Meetings: Annual. 



Professional activities: Research laboratories 

 with permanent staff of fifty; graduate educa- 

 tional program conducted cooperatively with 

 Princeton University. 



Publications: Textile Research Journal, 

 monthly, current volume : 30, $25. Editor : R. K. 

 Toner. Institute Membership News, quarterly, 

 current volume : 14, free to members. Editor : 

 Candida Frenking. 



Library: 1,500 volumes. Subject emphasis: 

 Chemistry, physics, engineering. 



1477. Tissue Culture Association. President: 

 Charity Waymouth, R. B. Jackson Memorial 

 Laboratory, Bar Harbor, Maine. Term ex- 

 pires April 1962. Secretary-Treasurer: 

 Duncan C. Hetherington, Duke Hospital, 

 Durham, N. C. Term indefinite. 



History: Organized November 1946 as the 

 Tissue Culture Commission after the Hershey 

 Conference. Constitution adopted April 1949. 

 Name changed to Tissue Culture Association 

 and the first set of officers elected April 1950. 



Purpose: To foster the collection and dissemi- 

 nation of information concerning the mainten- 

 ance and experimental use of tissue cells and 

 the evaluation and development of procedures 

 therefor. 



Membership: Open to persons who have con- 

 tributed to the understanding of cell cultivation 

 or its applications to other fields of science. 



1478. Topeka Engineers Club. President: John 

 H. Anderson, 2331 Prairie Road, Topeka, 

 Kans. Term expires December 31, 1960. 

 Secretary: James O. Ridenour, 2520 West 9th 

 Street, Topeka, Kans. Term expires Decem- 

 ber 31, 1960. 



History Organized 1919. 



Purpose: Promotion of engineering profes- 

 sion. 



Membership: Graduate or practicing engi- 

 neers. Total membership 153. 

 Meetings: Monthly. 



1479. Torrey Botanical Club. President: 

 Charles A. Berger, Fordham University, 

 Bronx, New York 58, N. Y. Term expires 

 December 1960. Secretary: Annette Hervey, 

 New York Botanical Garden, Bronx Park, 

 New York 58, N. Y. Term expires December 

 1960. 



History: Founded informally about 1860; in- 

 corporated 1872. In its beginnings, the Club was 

 intended primarily to establish firmer bonds of 

 interest among botanists of the New York area. 

 Today, however, membership includes botanists 

 from every state in the Union and from a large 

 number of foreign countries. In approximately a 

 century, the Club has become a national and 

 international organization, and its publications 

 are standard reference works for botanists. 



Purpose: To promote interest in botany, and 

 to collect and disseminate information on all 

 phases of plant science. 



Membership: Total membership 575. 



Meetings: Semimonthly from October to 

 May. 



Publications : Bulletin, bimonthly, current vol- 

 ume : 87, $9. Editor : James Gunckel. Memoirs, 

 irregularly, current volume: 21. 



1480. Tree-Ring Society. President: J. C. 

 McGregor, Department of Anthropology, Uni- 

 versity of Illinois, Urbana, 111. Term in- 

 definite. Secretary: C. W. Ferguson, Depart- 

 ment of Watershed Management, University 

 of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona. Term indefinite. 



