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Publications: Transactions, quarterlj', cur- 

 rent volume: 89, $2.50. Editor: Lloyd Smith, 

 Jr. 



176. American Forestry Association. 919 17th 



Street, N. W., Washington 7, D. C. President: 

 Don P. Johnston. Term expires December 

 1960. Executive ]' ice-President : Fred E. 

 Hornaday. Term indefinite. 



History: Organized April 1882 in Cincinnati, 

 as the American Forestry Congress, joined at 

 the Montreal meeting August 1882 by an earlier 

 American Forestry Association organized in 

 Chicago in 1875 ; name changed to present title 

 1889 ; incorporated January 1897 ; reincorporated 

 January 1920 in the District of Columbia. 



Purpose: Advancement of intelligent manage- 

 ment and use of the country's forests and related 

 resources of soil, water, wildlife, and outdoor 

 recreation. 



Membership: Open to persons interested in 

 the conservation and perpetuation of American 

 forests and forest life. Subscribing. Contribut- 

 ing, Sustaining, Life, and Foreign members ; 

 Patrons. Total membership 30,000. 



Meetings: Annual. 



Publications: American Forests, monthly, cur- 

 rent volume : 66, $6. 



177. American Foundation for Homoeopathy. 



1726 Eye Street, N. W., Washington 6. D. C. 

 President: Allan D. Sutherland, P. O. Box 

 678, Brattleboro, Vt. Term expires October 

 1962. Secretary: Mrs. Margery B. Lavelle. 

 Term indefinite. 



History: Incorporated in the District of Co- 

 lumbia. June 1924, as an educational and scien- 

 tific organization. Pormerly run by a Board 

 of Trustees made up of seven physicians and 

 five laymen ; since 1954 it has been six phy- 

 sicians and six laymen. Conducted a Post- 

 Graduate School in Homoeopathy for Physicians 

 since 1922, except for war years. Foundation 

 Course for Laymen started in 1946. 



Purpose: To promote the art of healing ac- 

 cording to the natural laws of cure from a 

 strictly homoeopathic standpoint ; to establish 

 and direct centers for the study and under- 

 standing of homoeopathy together with re- 

 search work in any correlated subject; to dif- 

 fuse knowledge among the laity concerning 

 homoeopathic principles ; to serve as a reference 

 center for all that relates to homoeopathy and 

 to serve as a repository for homoeopathic litera- 

 ture and drugs. 



Membership : Open to those who wish to help 

 further the work of the Foundation. Associate, 

 114; Contributing. 110; Sustaining, 21; Life, 1. 



Meetings: Every four months. 



Professional activities: Lula R. Cannon Fund 

 for Cancer Research, $2,000 per year. Scholar- 

 ship Fund ($5,000) for use by student in Post- 

 Graduate School in Homoeopathy. 



Publications: The Layman Speaks, A Hom- 

 oeopathic Digest, monthly, current volume : 13, 

 $4. ($4.50 foreign). Editor: Arthur B. Green. 



Library: Approximately 5,000 volumes. 



178. American Foundation for Tropical Medi- 

 cine, Inc., and Liberian Institute of the 

 American Foundation for Tropical Medicine, 

 Inc. 551 5th Avenue, New York 17, N. Y. 

 President: Max J. Miller. Term indefinite. 

 Executive Secretary: Mrs. Hernia H. Hoefler. 

 Term indefinite. 



History: Foundation incorporated 1940, In- 

 stitute 1946, both in New York. 



Purpose: To collect, classify, and disseminate 

 knowledge concerning tropical or geographical 

 medicine, public health, and prevention of hu- 

 man and animal diseases in warm climates : to 

 conduct research and aid various educational 

 programs for this purpose. 



Membership: Open to persons interested in 

 tropical medicine. Total membership 79. 



Meetings: Annual. 



Professional activities: Research laboratory, 

 Harbel, Liberia ; Richard Pearson Strong Medal 

 for outstanding achievement in tropical medicine. 



179. American Foundrymen's Society. Golf and 

 Wolf Roads, Des Plaines, 111. President: 

 Norman J. Dunbeck, International Minerals 

 and Chemical Corporation, Skokie, 111. Term 

 expires May 1961. General Manager : William 

 W. Maloney. Term expires May 1961. 



History: Organized May 12, 1896, at Phila- 

 delphia, Pa. ; incorporated July 3, 1916, under 

 the laws of Illinois. There are forty-seven chap- 

 ters in various foundry centers in the United 

 States, Canada, and Mexico. Divisions : Brass 

 and Bronze, Die Casting and Permanent Mold, 

 Ductile Iron, Education, Gray Iron, Light 

 Metals, Malleable, Pattern, Sand, and Steel. 

 There are eighteen general interest committees. 



Purpose: To promote the arts and sciences 

 applicable to metal casting manufacture and to 

 improve the methods of production and the 

 quality of castings, so that the increasing utility 

 of all classes of castings may result advantage- 

 ously to persons engaged in the foundry and re- 

 lated industries and to users of foundry products. 



Membership: Personal members, 4,142; Com- 

 pany, 941 ; Sustaining, 136 ; Company affiliate, 

 6,276, employees of Company or Sustaining 

 members ; Associate, 403, those engaged ex- 

 clusively in education, government, or military 

 work ; Junior, 883, below age of twenty-five ; 



