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Purpose: The promotion and advancement of 

 horticulture in Wisconsin. 



Membership: Open to individuals with an 

 interest in the purposes of the Society. Total 

 membership 1,200. 



Meetings: Semiannual. 



Professional activities: Two honorary rec- 

 ognitions. 



Publications: Newsletter, eight times yearly, 

 current volume : 3. Editor : G. C. Klingbeil. 



fession, to extend medical knowledge and to 

 advance medical sciences. 



Membership: Active, 250, women graduates 

 in medicine in good professional standing and 

 who are members of a county medical society. 



Alee tings: Semiannual. 



Professional activities: Mary T. Greene Fund 

 provides tuition for two women students at 

 Vellore Medical College in India. Mathilda K. 

 Wallin Fund for the medical education of 

 women. 



1578. Wisconsin Surgical Society. President: 

 Peter A. Midelfart, 314 Grand Avenue. Eau 

 Claire, Wis. Term expires May 1961. Secre- 

 tary-Treasurer: Norman O. Becker, 104 South 

 Main Street, Fond du Lac, Wis. Term ex- 

 pires May 1963. 



History: Organized 1942 as Wisconsin Acad- 

 emy of Surgery. The Academy dissolved June 

 9, 1946, and the present Society was organized 

 September 14, 1946: incorporated November 

 1946. 



Purpose: The cultivation and improvement 

 of the science and art of surgery for the better- 

 ment of surgical care to citizens of \\'isconsin ; 

 the promotion of closer professional relations 

 among the surgeons of the State. 



Membership: Active, 140, general surgeons 

 belonging to the State Medical Society and 

 certified by American Board of Surgery, or 

 fellowship in American College of Surgeons ; 

 Senior, 13, active members who have reached 

 the age of sixty-five and who request senior 

 membership, or members of the Society for ten 

 years and incapacitated by chronic illness who 

 apply for senior membership without regard to 

 age. 



Meetings: Semiannual. 



Professional activities: Annual award for 

 Prize Surgical Resident Paper. 



1579. Women's Medical Society of New York 

 State. President: Lois J. Plummer, 131 

 Linwood Avenue, Buflfalo 9, N. Y. Term ex- 

 pires May 1962. Secretary: Harriett E. 

 Northrup, 213 East 6fh Street, Jamestown, 

 N. Y. Term expires May 1962. 



History: Organized March 1907; incorporated 

 May 2, 1908. Functions as Branch 18 of the 

 American Medical Women's Association. Di- 

 vided into eight districts. Standing Commit- 

 tees : Legislation, Public Health and Medical 

 Education, Scientific Program. 



Purpose: To bring the Medical Women of 

 New York State into communication with each 

 other for their mutual advantage, to encourage 

 social and harmonious relations within the pro- 



1580. Women's Veterinary Medical Association. 



President: Maxine Benjamin, School of Vet- 

 erinary Medicine, Colorado A. and M. College, 

 Fort Collins, Colo. Term expires August 

 1962. Executive Secretary: Marguerite Gulick, 

 770 South Main Street, Great Barrington, 

 Mass. Term expires August 1962. 



History: Organized April 1947. 



Purpose: To further the interests of women 

 veterinarians and keep them informed on the 

 activities of their colleagues. 



Membership: Graduates of a recognized vet- 

 erinary college. Total membership 200. 



Meetings: Annual. 



Professional activities: Annual $100 award to 

 woman graduate of the current year who has 

 maintained highest average during four years 

 of veterinary college. Periodic contributions to 

 student loan fund administered by the Women's 

 Auxiliary to the American Veterinary Medical 

 Association. Periodic contributions to American 

 Veterinary Medical Association Research Fund. 



Publications : Bulletin, quarterly, current vol- 

 ume : 14. Editor : Marguerite Gulick. 



1581. World Medical Association. 10 Columbus 

 Circle, New York 19. N. Y. President: Paul 

 Eckel, Stalstrasse 16, Hanover, Germany. 

 Term expires September 1961. Secretary- 

 General: Heinz Lord. Term begins January 

 1961. 



History: Organized in London in 1947. 



Purpose: To protect and promote freedoms 

 essential to effective practice of medicine ; to 

 raise the standards of medical education and 

 health ; to bring together physicians for the 

 purpose of sharing knowledge and ideas ; to pro- 

 vide a world forum for discussion and solution 

 of problems common to medicine ; to speak for 

 the physician before other world organizations. 



Membership : Limited to the national medical 

 association of each country that is most rep- 

 resentative of the medical profession. Total 

 membership 56 national medical associations, or 

 700.000 physicians. 



