with Dr. Rainer Zangerl, Curator of Fossil Reptiles, as alternate 

 director for the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology. Curator 

 Denison attended the annual meetings in New York of the Society 

 of Vertebrate Paleontology and the Society for the Study of Evo- 

 lution and the meetings at Higgins Lake, Michigan, of the American 

 Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists. Dr. Eugene S. Richard- 

 son, Jr., Curator of Fossil Invertebrates, attended the meetings in 

 Chicago of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists, and 

 William D. Turnbull, Assistant Curator of Fossil Mammals, attended 

 the meetings, also in Chicago, of the American Association of 

 Physical Anthropologists. 



Dr. Austin L. Rand, Chief Curator of Zoology, and Melvin A. 

 Traylor, Jr., Assistant Curator of Birds, attended the meetings 

 in Denver of the American Ornithologists' Union, where Chief 

 Curator Rand was elected a vice-president and appointed to the 

 Finance Committee. Dr. Karl P. Schmidt, Curator Emeritus of 

 Zoology, who was elected to the National Academy of Sciences, 

 attended meetings in Washington, D.C., of the Committee on 

 Systematic Biology (sponsored by the American Institute of Bio- 

 logical Sciences on behalf of the National Science Foundation) and 

 of the National Science Foundation. Dr. Schmidt participated in 

 the Institute of Biology at the University of Utah (held under the 

 auspices of the National Science Foundation) and, with Dr. Robert 

 F. Inger, Curator of Amphibians and Reptiles, in the Midwest 

 Symposium on Systematic Biology at Missouri Botanical Garden. 



Loren P. Woods, Curator of Fishes, Dr. Edward M. Nelson, 

 Associate in the Division of Fishes, and Miss Laura Brodie, Assistant 

 in Zoology, attended the meetings at Higgins Lake of the American 

 Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, where Dr. Nelson 

 presented two papers and Curator Woods was elected vice-president 

 for conservation and re-elected to a joint committee on common 

 names of fishes. Philip Hershkovitz, Curator of Mammals, Luis de 

 la Torre, Associate in the Division of Mammals, and Miss Sophie 

 Andris, Osteologist, attended the meeting of the American Society 

 of Mammalogists at Higgins Lake. Rupert L. Wenzel, Curator of 

 Insects, and Henry S. Dybas, Associate Curator, attended the 

 Tenth International Congress of Entomology in Montreal, where 

 Curator Wenzel presented an illustrated paper. D. D wight Davis, 

 Curator of Vertebrate Anatomy, took part in the meetings in Chicago 

 of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists. 



The Museum was represented at the annual meeting in St. Louis 

 of the Midwest Conference of Museums of the American Association 

 of Museums by Miss Miriam Wood, Chief of James Nelson and Anna 



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