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SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL SOCIETIES 



American Veterinary Medical Association as 

 certifying agency for specialists in veterinary 

 pathology, August 1951. 



Purpose: To further scientific progress in 

 specialty of veterinary pathology ; to establish 

 standards of training and experience for quah- 

 fications of specialists in veterinary pathology ; 

 to further recognition of such qualified special- 

 ists by suitable certification. 



Membership: Veterinarians must have min- 

 imum of five years' professional training and 

 experience subsequent to receipt of degrees ; 

 training must be under conditions and preceptors 

 approved by the Council of this organization ; 

 after required training candidates are admitted 

 to examinations, scope of which includes diseases 

 of large and small animals, clinical and experi- 

 mental pathology, and, upon successful com- 

 pletion of examinations, are awarded certificates 

 and membership. Members and charter mem- 

 bers, 89 ; Emeritus, 3. Total membership 92. 



Meetings: Semiannual. 



Professional activities: Seminars are held at 

 least once annually, and often twice a year, for 

 postgraduate education of members and, in 

 some instances, of non-members. Through its 

 committees on Education, Requirements, Ex- 

 amination, Clinical Pathology, and Photography, 

 continuous studies are made of needs in educa- 

 tion and research in this organization's specialty. 



150. American Committee for International 

 Wild Life Protection. Chairman: Harold J. 

 Coolidge, 2101 Constitution Avenue, Washing- 

 ton 25, D. C. Term expires January 1961, 

 subject to annual re-election. Executive Sec- 

 retary: Lee S. Crandall, New York Zoological 

 Park, New York 60, N. Y. Term expires 

 January 1961, subject to annual re-election. 



History: Organized January 1930 at annual 

 meeting of the Boone and Crockett Club to rep- 

 resent that club and other important recognized 

 institutions interested in wild life protection. 

 Members of the first Executive Committee rep- 

 resented the Boone and Crockett Club, the 

 New York Zoological Society, the American 

 Museum of Natural History ; representatives 

 of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Field 

 Museum of Natural History. Smithsonian Insti- 

 tution, Academy of Natural Sciences of Phila- 

 delphia, California Academy of Sciences, Ameri- 

 can Society of Mammalogists, Camp Fire Club 

 of America, and Wilderness Club were added 

 later. 



Purpose: Conservation and preservation of 

 threatened and vanishing forms of wild life ; 

 promoting and financing research into status 

 and ecology of threatened species ; publishing 

 and disseminating information dealing with cur- 

 rent status of various forms of wild life and 



with scientific and esthetic value of all wild 

 life ; contributing financially to national and 

 international organizations concerned with wild 

 life conservation, with special reference to activ- 

 ities outside the United States. 



Membership: Open to persons having world 

 wide interest in wild life conservation or dis- 

 tinguished for achievement in the general cause 

 of nature and faunal preservation. Total mem- 

 bership 44. 



Meetings: Annual. 



151. American Concrete Institute. P. O. Box 



4754, Detroit 19, Mich. President: Joe W. 

 Kelly, Professor of Civil Engineering, Eng- 

 ineering Materials Laboratory, University of 

 California, Berkeley 4, CaHf. Term expires 

 February 22, 1961. Executive Secretary: 

 William A. Maples. Term indefinite. 



History: Organized January 17, 1905; chart- 

 ered December 14, 1906, under Incorporation 

 Laws of the District of Columbia, as the 

 National Association of Cement Users ; July 2, 

 1913, name changed to present title. Com- 

 mittees : There are more than fifty committees 

 for research on concrete products and structures. 



Purpose: To organize the efiforts of its mem- 

 bers for a non-profit public service in gathering, 

 correlating, and disseminating information for 

 the improvement of the design, construction, 

 manufacture, use, and maintenance of concrete 

 products and structures. 



Membership: Individual, 8,408; Corporation 

 Member, firm, society, or government agency, 

 402 ; Contributing, same as Corporation but with 

 unusual interest and desire to support Institute 

 activities, 51 ; Junior, under twenty-eight 939 ; 

 Student, same as Junior plus enrollment in eng- 

 ineering school, 432 ; Life, paid up individual, 

 13 ; Honorary, elected by Board of Direction, 8. 

 Total membership 10,253. 



Meetings: Annual. 



Professional activities: Wason Medal, founded 

 by Leonard C. Wason, Boston, Mass., awarded 

 each year to the author of the most meritorious 

 paper published in the previous annual volume 

 of Proceedings. Wason Research Medal, founded 

 by Leonard C. Wason, awarded for notable con- 

 tributions reporting research in the field of con- 

 crete and concrete design, Henry C. Turner 

 Gold Medal, founded in 1927 by Henry C. 

 Turner of New York City, awarded occasionally 

 for notable achievement in or service to the 

 concrete industry. American Concrete Institute 

 Construction Practice Award, a certificate of 

 award and bronze plaque awarded on occasion 

 for a paper of outstanding merit on construction 

 practice. Alfred E. Lindau Award, founded in 

 1947 by Concrete Reinforcing Steel Institute, 

 awarded occasional!}- for outstanding contribu- 



