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SCIENTIFIC AXD TECHNICAL SOCIETIES 



Gaithersburg, Md. Term expires October 1961. 

 Executive Director: John B. Kaiser, 1025 

 Connecticut Avenue, N.W., Washington 6, 

 D. C. Term indefinite. 



History: Organized 1937; affiliate, American 

 Association for the Advancement of Science. 

 Committees : Auxiliary Publications, Bibliog- 

 raphy, Distribution, Organization of Informa- 

 tion, Reproduction. Research and Technical 

 Developments. Training. 



Purpose: Advancement of principles and tech- 

 niques of communication of recorded knowledge. 



Membership: Individual members, 350, per- 

 sons subscribing to purposes of this Institute ; 

 Institutional, 12, societies, associations, govern- 

 ment agencies, educational institutions, indus- 

 trial and business organizations interested in 

 promoting purposes of this Institute. 



Meetings: Annual. 



Publications: American Documentation, quar- 

 terly, current volume: 11, $6.50. Editor: Luther 

 H. Evans. 



1 66. American Electroencephalogf aphic Society. 



1420 Grattan Street, St. Louis 4, Mo. Presi- 

 dent: Jerome K. Merlis, University Hospital, 

 Baltimore, Md. Term expires June 1961. 

 Secretary: George A. Ulett. Term expires 

 June 1961. 



History: Organized December 1946; incor- 

 porated December 1947. Member of Interna- 

 tional Federation of Electroencephalographers. 

 Committees : Hospital Relations, Scientific 

 Proceedings, Symposium, Technicians. 



Purpose: To promote research and exchange 

 of professional information oti electroence- 

 phalography and related fields ; to help maintain 

 high scientific standards of clinical electroence- 

 phalographic laboratories ; to set up standards 

 for the certification of investigators or tech- 

 nicians to assist in training personnel ; to draw 

 up minimum specifications for apparatus ; to 

 assist in the formation of international commit- 

 tees for uniform standards of apparatus, tech- 

 niques, and procedure throughout the world. 



Membership: Full members: experienced 

 workers in electroencephalography or related 

 fields, 127 ; honorary fellows : distinguished 

 workers in the field, who shall be required to 

 pay no fees or dues, and who shall have no vote, 

 19 ; associate : advanced workers in such fields 

 who are not deemed qualified to be members, 

 104; subscribers: technicians and others not 

 deemed qualified for any other class of member- 

 ship, 107. Total membership 358. 



Meetings: .Annual. 



Publications: Journal of Electroencephalog- 

 raphy and Clinical Neurophysiology, quarterly, 

 current volume: 12, $10. Editor: Herbert H. 

 Jasper. 



167. American Electroplaters' Society, Inc. 443 



Broad Street, Newark 2. N. J. President: 

 \\. .\ndrew Wesley. P. O. Box U, Bergen 

 Point Station. Bayonne, N. J. Term expires 

 June 22), 1961. Executive Secretary: John P. 

 Nichols. Term indefinite. 



History: Organized and incorporated in New 

 Jersey. 1909. Three branches in .Australia, five 

 in Canada, fifty-one in the United States. 



Purpose: Improvement and dissemination of 

 knowledge of the arts and sciences of electro- 

 plating, metal finishing, and allied specialties; 

 development of cooperation and friendship among 

 members. 



Membership: Active members, 7,200, persons 

 interested in the object of this Society; Student, 

 persons not over twenty-five years of age, en- 

 rolled in full time courses at accredited institu- 

 tions of learning, and interested in the object of 

 this Society ; Sustaining. 350, those with interest 

 in this Society's research program ; Honorary, 

 14; Members-at-Large, 300, those not desiring 

 membership in any branch. Total membership 

 approximately 8,000. 



Meetings: Annual. 



Professional activities: Research Fund, for 

 research in electroplating and metal finishing, 

 over $100,000; Carl E. Heussner Award (So- 

 ciety's Gold Medal), $250, annual, for best paper 

 presented ; Silver and Bronze Medals, $150 and 

 $50 respectively, annual, for 2nd and 3rd best 

 papers; Robert S. Leather Mechanical Finishing 

 .\ward. Chromium Plating Award, and Precious 

 Metal Plating Award, for best papers on those 

 subjects, $50 each; George B. Hogaboom Me- 

 morial Nickel Plating Award, $75 ; John J. 

 Hanney Memorial Copper Plating Award, $75 ; 

 Scientific Achievement Award, this Societj''s 

 highest, $500 ; Charles Henry Proctor Memorial 

 Leadership Award, $150. 



Publications : Plating Magazine, monthly, cur- 

 rent volume : 47, domestic $5, foreign $8, free 

 to members. Editor : Rodney Leeds. Technical 

 Proceedings, annual. 



168. American Entomological Society. .Academy 

 of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 1900 

 Race Street, Philadelphia. Pa. President: 

 Neal A. Weber, Biology Department, Swarth- 

 more College, Swarthmore, Pa. Term ex- 

 pires January 1961. Executive Secretary: 

 Richard F. Swivel, P. O. Box 37, Penns Park, 

 Pa. Term expires January 1961. 



History: Organized February 22, 1859. 



Purpose: The improvement and advancement 

 of entomology by original research, and by 

 publication of discoveries. 



Membership: Resident members, correspond- 

 ing members, honorary members. Total member- 

 ship 180. 



