Curator of Mammals, and Osteologist Sophie Andris attended the 

 meetings in Lawrence, Kansas, of the American Society of Mammal- 

 ogists. Dr. Robert F. Inger, Curator of Amphibians and Reptiles, 

 Loren P. Woods, Curator of Fishes, D. Dwight Davis, Curator of 

 Vertebrate Anatomy, and the late Curator Emeritus Karl P. Schmidt 

 attended the meetings in New Orleans of the American Society of 

 Ichthyologists and Herpetologists. Curator Inger spoke in St. Louis 

 at the midwest conference on biosystematics. 



Rupert L. Wenzel, Curator of Insects, and Henry S. Dybas, Asso- 

 ciate Curator, presented papers at the annual meetings in Memphis 

 of the Entomological Society of America, where Curator Wenzel was 

 appointed to a committee to consider establishing a national institute 

 of entomology. Dr. Fritz Haas, Curator of Lower Invertebrates, 

 attended the meetings of the American Malacological Union at New 

 Haven. Dr. Alan Solem, Assistant Curator of Lower Invertebrates, 

 was elected to the Natural Science Foundation, an organization de- 

 voted to the study of Indo-Pacific marine mollusks. Mrs. Marion 

 Grey, Associate in the Division of Fishes, was elected Fellow of the 

 Academy of Zoology in Agra, India. 



Miss Miriam Wood, Chief of James Nelson and Anna Louise 

 Raymond Foundation, attended the annual meeting in Grand Rapids 

 of the Midwest Conference of Museums of the American Association 

 of Museums. Local meetings of the American Library Association 

 and of the Special Libraries Association were attended by Mrs. Meta 

 P. Howell, Librarian, and Mrs. M. Eileen Rocourt, Associate Librar- 

 ian. Mrs. Rocourt was appointed chairman of the Museums Divi- 

 sion of the Special Libraries Association's annual convention to be 

 held in Chicago in June, 1958, and attended the preliminary planning 

 boards held in November and December. 



Dr. John W. Thieret, Curator of Economic Botany, was appointed 

 to the staff of advisory editors of Economic Botany. Members of the 

 Museum's scientific staff who continued to serve in various capacities 

 on editorial boards of scientific journals include Chief Curator Just, 

 Lloydia (editor) and American Journal of Botany; Assistant Curator 

 Turnbull, Sdugetierkundliche Mitteilungen (Stuttgart, Germany) and 

 Society of Vertebrate Paleontology News Bulletin; and Curator Woods, 

 The American Midland Naturalist. Curator Davis was elected to the 

 editorial board of Copeia, and Dr. Edward M. Nelson, Associate in 

 the Division of Fishes, is an assistant editor. 



A number of members of the Museum's scientific staff contribute 

 reviews and articles to various learned journals on subjects within the 

 Museum's fields of interest and research. A bibliography of some of 

 this material that appeared in 1957 is on page 95. 



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