ACTIVITIES OF STAFF MEMBERS IN SCIENTIFIC 

 SOCIETIES 



Dr. Paul S. Martin, Chief Curator of Anthropology, and Dr. John 

 B. Rinaldo, Assistant Curator of Archaeology, attended the Pecos 

 Conference on Southwestern Archaeology in Flagstaff, Arizona. 

 George I. Quimby, Curator of North American Archaeology and 

 Ethnology, attended the annual meetings of the Society for American 

 Archaeology in Lincoln, Nebraska, and the field meeting in Michigan 

 of Friends of the Pleistocene, Midwest Section. Roland W. Force, 

 Curator of Oceanic Archaeology and Ethnology, attended the 

 annual meetings in Santa Monica, California, of the American 

 Anthropological Association, where he presented a paper in a special 

 symposium on Micronesia and participated in an organizational 

 meeting of the United States and Hawaiian Branch of the Far- 

 Eastern Prehistory Association. Miss Elaine Bluhm, Assistant in 

 Archaeology, and Allen S. Liss, Assistant in Anthropology, attended 

 meetings in Springfield of the Illinois Archaeological Survey, of 

 which Miss Bluhm was elected secretary. Dr. Donald Collier, 

 Curator of South American Archaeology and Ethnology, was elected 

 chairman of the Institute of Andean Research. Curator Collier and 

 Curator Quimby attended the meetings in Chicago of the American 

 Association of Physical Anthropologists. 



Dr. Theodor Just, Chief Curator of Botany, was one of six 

 speakers at the Golden Jubilee Symposium "Progress and Outstand- 

 ing Achievements in Various Fields of Botany During the Past 

 Fifty Years," which was held on August 29 at the University of 

 Connecticut to commemorate the founding in 1906 of the Botanical 

 Society of America. He was appointed a member of the Committee 

 on Systematic Biology sponsored on behalf of the National Science 

 Foundation by the American Institute of Biological Sciences and 

 a member of the Subcommittee of Paleobotany for the Ninth 

 Botanical Congress (1959) and continued as a member of the Council 

 of the Society for the Study of Evolution. Dr. Julian A. Steyermark, 

 Curator of the Phanerogamic Herbarium, participated in a four-day 

 field trip to the Driftless Area of Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Iowa, 

 conducted by the Central States section of the Botanical Society 

 of America. 



Dr. Sharat K. Roy, Chief Curator of Geology, attended the 

 meetings in Mexico City of the International Geological Congress. 

 Dr. Robert H. Denison, Curator of Fossil Fishes, attended meetings 

 in Chicago of the Committee on Government Relations and of the 

 Board of Directors of the American Geological Institute, serving, 



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