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SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL SOCIETIES 



1591. National Conference on Weights and 

 Measures. Office of Weights and Measures, 

 National Bureau of Standards, Washington 

 25, D. C. President: A. V. Astin. Term in- 

 definite. Secretary: W. S. Bussey. Term 

 indefinite. 



History: Organized 1905; sponsored by Na- 

 tional Bureau of Standards. Committees : Laws 

 and Regulations ; Specifications and Tolerances. 



Ptirpose: To provide a national forum for dis- 

 cussion of all questions related to weights and 

 measures ; to develop a consensus on model 

 weights and measures laws, and regulations, 

 specifications, and tolerances for commercially 

 used weighing and measuring devices, and test- 

 ing, enforcement, and administrative procedures ; 

 to encourage and promote uniformity of re- 

 quirements and methods among weights and 

 measures jurisdictions ; to foster cooperation 

 among weights and measures officers, and be- 

 tween them and manufacturing, industrial, busi- 

 ness, and consumer interests affected by their 

 official activities. 



Membership: Active members, weights and 

 measures officers of States, counties, and cities ; 

 Associate, representatives of equipment manu- 

 facturers, business, and industry. Total mem- 

 bership approximately 3,500. 



Meetings: Annual. 



Publications: Report of Proceedings, annual, 

 current volume : 44, $0.65. Editor : W. S. Bussey. 



1592. Newell Entomological Society. President: 

 Leland A. Davis, Department of Entomology, 

 University of Florida, Gainesville, Fla. Term 

 expires June 1, 1961. Executive Secretary: 

 Lester E. Scherer. Term expires June 1, 1961. 



History: Organized 1938. 



Purpose: To serve as contact between stu- 

 dent and professional entomologists and to 

 encourage study of entomology. 



Membership: Requires interest in entomology. 

 Total membership 250. 



Meetings: Semimonthly. 



Professional activitites: Exhibits at Agricul- 

 tural Fair, Florida Entomological Conference. 



Publications: Journal, irregular. $2.50. Editor: 

 K. A. Noegel. 



1593. Pacific Rocket Society, Inc. P. O. Box 



15774, Del Valle Station, Los Angeles 15, 

 Calif. President: Nicholaas Klos, 409 Glas- 

 cow Avenue, Inglewood, Calif. Term expires 

 November 1961. Secretary: Robert S. Helf- 

 man, 500 Landfair Avenue, Los Angeles 24, 

 Calif. Term expires November 1961. 



History: Founded 1944 as South Pasadena 

 Rocket Society ; incorporated under present title 



1946. Branches located Inglewood, Encino, and 

 Hollywood, Calif. Divisions : Fuels, Facilities, 

 Instrumentation, Clerical. 



Purpose: Active research in fields of rocketry 

 and space flight. 



Membership: Requires active interest in 

 rocketry; Full members must be over eighteen 

 years of age ; Student members must be enrolled 

 in high school or university. 60 Full members, 

 50 Student members. Total membership 110. 



Meetings: Biannual. 



Professional activities: Laboratory maintained 

 at Northrup Institute of Technology ; static 

 test cell, same location; forty-acre Mojave Test 

 Area, fully equipped, in upper Mojave Desert. 



1594. Sigmund Freud Archives, Inc. 300 Central 



Park West, New York 24, N. Y. President: 

 Bertram D. Lewin, 32 East 64th Street. 

 New York, N. Y. Term expires September 

 1960. Secretary: K. R. Eissler. Term expires 

 September 1960. 



History: Founded 1952. 



Purpose: To collect and preserve all recollec- 

 tions, memories, correspondence, scientific and 

 personal writings of and by Sigmund Freud ; 

 to provide a longitudinal record of the growth 

 and development of psychoanalysis. 



Membership: By invitation and election. Total 

 membership 28. 



Meetings: Annual. 



Professional activites: Transmittal to Library 

 of Congress, Washington, D. C, of all materials 

 donated to or received by this organization. All 

 personal papers are sealed and held confidential 

 by the Library of Congress for periods of time 

 specified by donors of such papers. 



1595. Society of Aerospace Material and Process 

 Engineers. President: Bernard Silverman, 

 Lockheed Aircraft Corporation, 11320 Lasaine 

 Avenue, Granada Hills, Calif. Term expires 

 September 1, 1961. Secretary: Frank E. 

 Robinson, General Electric Company, LJED — 

 Building 700, Cincinnati 15, Ohio. Term ex- 

 pires September 1, 1961. 



History: Organized in 1945 as the Society of 

 Aircraft Materials and Process Engineers ; name 

 later changed to present title. Chapters : Los 

 Angeles, San Gabriel Valley, San Fernando 

 Valley, Southwest (Dalas-Fort Worth), East- 

 ern (Batlimore, Washington, New York), 

 Midwest. Steering Committee organized in 

 October 1959 to form a national organization; 

 first national meeting of Board of Directors in 

 November 1960. 



Purpose: To provide an opportunity for the 

 discussion of subjects of common interest and 



