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SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL SOCIETIES 



111. American Federation for Clinical Research. 



250 West 57th Street, New York 19, N. Y. 

 President: Arnold S. Relman, Evans Me- 

 morial Hospital, Boston 18, Mass. Term ex- 

 pires May 1961. Secretary-Treasurer: George 

 E. Schreiner, Georgetown University Hos- 

 pital, Washington, D. C. Term expires May 

 1961. 



History: Organized May 7, 1941. Sections: 

 Eastern, Southern, Midwestern, and West- 

 ern. Fifteen organized local clubs : Albany Re- 

 search Club ; Ann Arbor-Detroit, Toledo Group ; 

 Boston Chapter ; Chicago Group ; Greater Phila- 

 delphia Chapter ; New Jersey Research Society ; 

 Northwest Society for Clinical Research ; Oak- 

 land Chapter ; Omaha Research Club ; Univer- 

 sity of Denver Medical Research ; San Francisco 

 Branch; Syracuse Research Club; Temple 

 Chapter ; Washington, D. C. ; Westchester Chap- 

 ter. Standing Committees : Executive, Publica- 

 tion. 



Purpose: To promote and encourage original 

 research in clinical and laboratory medicine ; 

 to welcome as members and provide an accessible 

 forum for young persons engaged in such 

 research. 



Membership: Regular members, 2,123, any 

 person under the age of forty-one who has 

 completed and published a meritorious investi- 

 gation in any field related to medicine, and whose 

 application has been approved by the Council ; 

 Senior, 1,371, any person forty-one years of age 

 of older, who has completed and published a 

 meritorious investigation in any field related 

 to medicine, and who is actively stimulating 

 younger persons to pursue similar investigation, 

 and whose application has been approved by the 

 Council ; Corporate, any corporation or founda- 

 tion interested in the purposes of the Federa- 

 tion, which has been invited to become a Cor- 

 porate member and has paid the prescribed dues. 

 Total membership 3,494. 



Meetings: Annual; four geographic meetings. 



Publications: Clinical Research, quarterly, 

 current volume : 8, $8 domestic, $9 foreign. 

 Editor : Morton D. Bogdonofif. 



173- American Federation of Mineralogical So- 

 cieties. President: Henry B. Graves, 3153 

 North West 27th Street, Miami 42, Fla. Term 

 expires August 10, 1961. Secretary: Mrs. 

 Veryle Carnahan, 9531 Mina Avenue, Whit- 

 tier, Calif. Term expires August 10, 1961. 



History: Organized June 12, 1947 at Salt Lake 

 City. Members : California Federation of 

 Mineralogical Societies ; Eastern Federation of 

 Mineralogical and Lapidary Societies ; Midwest 

 Federation of Mineralogical and Geological So- 

 cieties ; Northwest Federation of Mineralogical 



Societies; Rocky Mountain Federation of 

 Mineralogical Societies; Texas Federation of 

 Mineral Societies. 



Purpose: To promote popular interest and 

 education in the various earth sciences, and in 

 particular the subjects of geology, mineralogy, 

 paleontology, lapidary and related subjects. 



Membership: Open to organized regional fed- 

 erations ; consists of affiliated groups of socie- 

 ties or associations whose objects and purposes 

 fit within the framework of objects of this 

 association. Total membership approximately 

 35,000 to 40,000, comprising 525 societies in 6 

 regional federations. 



Meetings: Annual. 



Professional activities: Scholarship Founda- 

 tion ; Junior Essay Contest, five cash prizes. 



Publications: Gems and Minerals, monthly, 

 $3. Editor ; Don MacLachlan. 



174. American Fern Society, Inc. President: 

 Clair A. Brown, 1180 Stanford Avenue, Baton 

 Rouge 8, La. Term expires December 31, 

 1960. Secretary: Donald G. Huttleston, Long- 

 wood Gardens, Kennett Square, Pa. Term 

 expires December 31, 1960. 



History: Organized in 1893 as Linnaean Fern 

 Chapter of the Agassiz Association; name 

 changed to present title in 1905 ; incorporated in 

 1936. 



Purpose: To affiliate those interested in ferns, 

 to foster such an interest, to encourage corre- 

 spondence and exchange of specimens between 

 members, and the publication of matter per- 

 taining to this group of plants. 



Membership: Members, 800, interest in ferns 

 and their allies ; Honorary, 5. 



Meetings: Annual. 



Publications: American Fern Journal, quar- 

 terly, current volume: 50, $2.35. Editor: C. V. 

 Morton. 



175. American Fisheries Society. P. O. Box 483, 

 McLean, Va. President: James Moflfett, 1220 

 East Washington Street, Ann Arbor, Mich. 

 Term expires September 1961. 



History: Organized 1870; incorporated in the 

 District of Columbia, 1910. 



Purpose: To promote conservation, develop- 

 ment, and wise utilization of fisheries, both 

 recreational and commercial. 



Membership: Anyone interested in fish, fish- 

 ing, and fisheries is eligible for membership. 

 Total membership 2,100. 



Meetings: Annual. 



Professional activities: Annual Award for 

 best paper printed in quarterly Transactions. 



