Dr. Theodor Just, Chief Curator of Botany, attended in New Or- 

 leans the Conference of Biological Editors sponsored by the National 

 Science Foundation and the American Institute of Biological Sciences 

 and was appointed chairman of the committee on editorial policy. 

 He read a paper (synopsis of ginkgos) at the annual meetings of the 

 American Institute of Biological Sciences at Stanford University and 

 participated in a symposium on continental glaciation at the meet- 

 ings in Indianapolis of the American Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science (see page 95) . 



Dr. Rainer Zangerl, Curator of Fossil Reptiles, Dr. Eugene S. 

 Richardson, Jr., Curator of Fossil Invertebrates, and William D. 

 Turnbull, Assistant Curator of Fossil Mammals, attended the meet- 

 ings of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, which first met in 

 Philadelphia and then with the Geological Society of America in 

 Atlantic City, at which meetings they reported on their current re- 

 search. Curator Richardson attended the meetings in Indianapolis 

 of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, where 

 he presented a paper pertaining to the Mecca project (see page 53) 

 before the symposium on Mississippian and Pennsylvania problems 

 of the Midwest. Albert William Forslev, Associate Curator of Min- 

 eralogy and Petrology, attended in Denver the Sixth Annual Confer- 

 ence on Applications of X-ray Analysis, sponsored by the Denver 

 Research Institute and the University of Denver, and the meetings 

 in Atlantic City of the Geological Society of America, where he pre- 

 sented a paper. 



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

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

 Cape May of the American Ornithologists' Union, where Chief Cura- 

 tor Rand took part in a symposium on migration in the southern 

 hemisphere. Research Associate Rudyerd Boulton represented the 

 Museum at the Pan-African Ornithological Congress held in North- 

 ern Rhodesia and at the conference of the International Committee 

 for Bird Protection held in Southern Rhodesia. Philip Hershkovitz, 



In the collection of 40,000 nonmarine shells purchased recently from James Zetek 

 of Panama are several hundred specimens that had been obtained many years ago by 

 him from the Hungarian National Museum in Budapest. With destruction in 1956 

 of that museum's entire mollusk collection, the shells from this collection that are 

 now in Chicago Natural History Museum assume historical importance. Opposite 

 are several photographed against the account in "Science" (volume 125, page 342). 



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