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SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL SOCIETIES 



neers ; Texas Surveyors Association ; Virginia 

 Association of Surveyors ; Washington Associa- 

 tion of Land Surveyors ; Wisconsin Society of 

 Land Surveyors. Incorporated 1950, District of 

 Columbia. Divisions : Cartography ; Control 

 Surveys ; Education ; Instruments ; Property 

 Surveys ; Topography. 



Purpose: To advance the science of surveying 

 and mapping in their several branches ; to 

 further the interests of both those who use maps 

 and surveys and those who make them ; to estab- 

 lish a central source of reference for its mem- 

 bers ; to contribute a public education in the use 

 of maps and surveys, and to encourage the 

 prosecution of basic mapping and surveying pro- 

 grams which are paid in whole or in part with 

 public funds ; to provide a much needed means 

 or channel for the exchange of information, 

 advancement of techniques, establishment of 

 standards, improvement of the professional 

 status of those engaged in the work, and the 

 exercise of international, national, and local ex- 

 pression on all matters concerning the general 

 and scientific development of surveying and 

 mapping. 



Membership: Members, any person interested 

 or engaged in surveying and mapping. Fellow 

 Members, any member of the Congress who has 

 made some outstanding contribution to survey- 

 ing and mapping, or to the Congress. Honorary 

 Members, any person of national or international 

 lame who has made some outstanding contribu- 

 tion to surveying and mapping. Professional and 

 Technical Associations, any professional organi- 

 zation interested in surveying and mapping 

 activities. Sustaining Members, any commercial 

 or professional institution or individual inter- 

 ested or engaged in surveying and mapping, the 

 manufacture of instruments or equipment for this 

 work, or the reproduction or compilation of 

 maps. Total membership : 5,000 individuals and 

 several hundred libraries. 



Meetings: Annual. 



Professional activities: Wild - Heerbrugg 

 Award, for best article on improvement of 

 instrumentation in surveying. K and E Scholar- 

 ship for graduate work in surveying. 



Publications: Surveying and Mapping, quar- 

 terly, current volume : 20, $5. Editor : Howard 

 S. Rappleye. 



155. American Council of Independent Labora- 

 tories, Inc. President: Cecil M. Shilstone, 

 Shilstone Testing Laboratory, 814 Conti 

 Street, New Orleans, La. Term expires Octo- 

 ber 1960. Executive Secretary: Harold M. 

 Dudley, 4302 East-West Highway, Washing- 

 ton 14, D. C. Term indefinite. 



History: Organized 1937. Divisions: Central; 

 Eastern ; Southern ; \\'estern. 



Purpose: The promotion of scientific analysis, 

 testing, inspection, or research and the advance- 

 ment of the welfare of the independent scientific 

 laboratories which associate themselves for this 

 purpose. 



Membership: The membership is composed 

 of independent laboratories whose principal 

 business is analysis, testing, inspection, and re- 

 search and which are adequately equipped and 

 organized to render reliable service in their 

 chosen fields. Total membership 78 laboratories, 

 70 branches. 



Meetings: Annual. 



Publications: Bulletin, quarterly. Editor: H. 

 M. Dudley. 



1 56. American Council on Pharmaceutical Edu- 

 cation. President: George D. Beal, 5610 Elmer 

 Street, Pittsburgh 32, Pa. Term expires 

 January 1961. Secretary-Treasurer : P. H. 

 Costello, 77 West Washington Street, Chicago 

 2, 111. Term expires January 1961. 



History: Established 1932; incorporated 1939. 

 Composed of three representatives each from 

 the American Pharmaceutical Association, 

 American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy, 

 and the National Association of Boards of 

 Pharmacy, plus one representative from the 

 American Council on Education. 



Purpose: To formulate standards for an ap- 

 proved school of pharmacy, to revise when 

 necessary, and to publish a list of approved 

 schools of pharmacy. 



Membership: Appointment by sponsoring 

 organizations. Total membership 10. 



Meetings: Two per year. 



Professional activities: Accreditation of col- 

 leges of pharmacy. 



157. American Crystaliographic Association. 



President: Jurg Waser, California Institute 

 of Technology, Pasadena, Calif. Term expires 

 December 31, 1960. Secretary: Leroy E. Alex- 

 ander, Mellon Institute, Pittsburgh 13, Pa. 

 Term expires December 31, 1960. 



History: Organized 1949 by consolidation of 

 the American Society for X-Ray and Electron 

 Dififraction with the Crystaliographic Society 

 of America. Committees : Apparatus and Stand- 

 ards, Crystaliographic Computing, Crystalio- 

 graphic Data, Publications. 



Purpose: To promote the study of the ar- 

 rangement of the atoms in matter, the causes 

 of such arrangement, and its consequences and 

 of the tools and methods used in such studies. 



Membership: Any person actively interested 

 in the purposes of the Society, whose application 

 is sponsored by two members of the Society. 

 Total membership 900. 



Meetings: Annual. 



