SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL SOCIETIES 



Two Awards ($200 each) to students in se- 

 condary schools and colleges. 



Publications : Annales de I'Acfas, annual, cur- 

 rent volume : 26, $2. Bulletin de I'Acfas, 

 monthly, current volume : 2. 



21. Association des Biochimistes des Hopitaux 

 de Quebec, 202 First Street, Pont-Viau, 

 Montreal 40, P.Q. President: Guy Nadeau, 

 Hopital St.-Michel Archange, Quebec, P.Q. 

 Term expires November, 1960. Executive 

 Secretary: J. P. DuRuisseau. Term expires 

 November, 1960. 



History: Organized 1958. 



Purpose: To bring together biochemists work- 

 ing in hospitals or engaged in the field of clinical 

 chemistry; to promote the interests of bio- 

 chemists in their professional relations with 

 other professions and with the public. 



Membership: 75. Candidates must possess a 

 university degree in science, and must have 

 specialized in clinical chemistry. 



Meetings: Twice yearly. 



Publications: Bulletin, 4 times yearly, current 

 volume: 1, $3. Editor: M. Belanger. 



22. Association des Medecins de Langue Fran- 

 ^aise du Canada, 326 est, boulevard St.-Joseph, 

 Montreal 14, P. Q. Director-General: Emile 

 Blain, 400 est, rue Sherbrooke, Montreal 24, 

 P. Q. Term expires September, 1963. General 

 Secretary-Treasurer: E.-RoUand Blais, 1779 

 avenue de I'Eglise, Montreal 20, P. Q. Term 

 expires September, 1963. 



History: Founded in 1902. Geographic di- 

 visions : Maritimes, Quebec, Ontario, Western 

 Provinces. Committees include medical econo- 

 mics, scientific committee. 



Purpose: To organize scientific congresses; to 

 publish medical and scientific journals and 

 periodicals ; to safeguard, by the legal means 

 at its disposal, the professional interests of its 

 members ; to encourage, maintain or establish 

 other similar works. 



Membership: 5200. Medical degree required. 



Meetings: Annual. 



Publications: L'Union Medicale du Canada, 

 monthly, current volume: 89, $18. Editor: Roma 

 Amyot. 



Library: 3000 volumes on medical subjects. 



23. Association des Pathologistes et de Mede- 

 cins de Laboratoire du Quebec — Quebec 

 Association of Pathologists and Laboratory 

 Physicians. President: Jean-Louis Bonenfant, 

 Hotel Dieu de Quebec, Quebec, P. Q. Term 

 expires September, 1960. Executive-Secretary : 



Rene Lefebvre, Hotel Dieu de Montreal, 

 Montreal, P. Q. Term expires 1962. 



History: Founded 1946; incorporated by pro- 

 vincial statute in 1948. Membership at first 

 limited to pathologists, but expanded in 1960 

 to include all laboratory physicians. 



Purpose: To foster the advancement of the 

 various specialties of the medical laboratory and 

 of all allied sciences ; to promote the welfare 

 of its members in the Province of Quebec ; to 

 maintain the highest standards of proficiency 

 among its members. 



Membership: 88. Ordinary, associate, hon- 

 orary, and junior members. Ordinary and asso- 

 ciate members must be graduates in medicine 

 and licensed practitioners of the Province of 

 Quebec, specializing in one or several of the 

 branches of laboratory medicine ; they must be 

 certified as specialists by the College of 

 Physicians and Surgeons of the Province of 

 Quebec, and must devote themselves primarily 

 and principally to the practice or teaching of one 

 or more of the laboratory specialties. 



Meetings: Twice annually. 



24. Association des Podiatres de la Province de 

 Quebec — Association of Podiatrists of the 

 Province of Quebec. President: Claude 

 Laliberte, 335 Chemin Ste. Foy, Quebec, P. Q. 

 Term expires November, 1960. Executive- 

 Secretary: I. W. Kaufman, 1396 St. Catherine 

 Street, W., Montreal, Que. Term expires 

 November, 1960. 



History: Founded and incorporated in 1948, 

 to supercede a previous unchartered group 

 known as the Association of Chiropodists and 

 Foot Specialists of the Province of Quebec. 



Purpose: To promote higher standards of 

 education and practice for the profession of 

 podiatry ; to foster a free interchange of ideas 

 of the art and science of podiatry among the 

 members and the profession at large ; to improve, 

 and to develop, new techniques for the allevia- 

 tion of pain and the correction of deformities 

 within the scope of the profession. 



Membership: 14. Members must be Canadian 

 citizens, and have the degree of Doctor of 

 Podiatry from a recognized college of podiatry ; 

 also by "like reciprocity". 



Meetings: Annual. 



25. Association des Psychologues de Quebec — 

 Psychological Association of the Province of 

 Quebec. President: Abbe Roch Duval, 71 

 rue d'Auteuil, Quebec, P. Q. Term expires 

 May, 1961. Secretary-Treasurer: Marie Ange 

 Nichols, 3750 Cote des Neiges, Montreal, Que, 

 Term expires May, 1961. 



