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members are prepared to conduct organizations that will forward the objects 

 of the Association." Branches with varying degrees of success have been 

 organized at seven places. The following organizations have functioned as 

 branches: South Florida Science Association, Lancaster (Pa.) Branch 

 (nearly iooo members), Mobile (Ala.) Academy of Science, Phoenix 

 (Ariz.) Local Branch, Plattsburg (N. Y.) Branch, Southern Rhode Island 

 Branch, and Westchester (N. Y.) Institute of Sciences. 



Affiliated and Associated Societies 



In 1899 the Constitution of the Association first referred to "Affiliated 

 Societies," which were defined as scientific societies meeting contemporane- 

 ously with the Association and which were recognized by vote of the Council 

 as Affiliated Societies. The number of affiliated and associated societies has 

 steadily increased to 174 on July 1, 1940. 



Affiliated and associated societies are societies whose purposes, organiza- 

 tions and activities have been approved by the Council by admitting them 

 into one of these relationships with the Association. Affiliated and associated 

 societies pay no entrance fees or dues and are invited to hold their meetings 

 simultaneously with, and in cooperation with, the meetings of the Associa- 

 tion. When affiliated and associated societies meet with the Association, the 

 office of the Permanent Secretary arranges for their headquarters, meeting 

 rooms and necessary equipment. The outstanding features of their programs 

 are included in the preliminary announcements of the meetings of the Asso- 

 ciation and the Permanent Secretary's reports of the meetings that are pub- 

 lished in Science. The complete programs of their meetings are included in 

 the General Programs of the meetings of the Association. 



The only practical difference between the relationship of an affiliated 

 society and an associated society with the Association is that the former has 

 representation on the Council and the latter does not. If an affiliated society 

 has more than 100 members who are fellows of the Association, it has two 

 representatives on the Council ; otherwise it has only one. 



Associated and affiliated societies whose interests are limited to a recog- 

 nized field of science cooperate with the corresponding sections of the Asso- 

 ciation, and their representatives on the Council are ex officio members of 

 their Section Committees. For example, the American Physical Society co- 

 operates with the Section on Physics. It is the policy of the Association for 

 its sections to cooperate, rather than compete, with their related affiliated and 

 associated societies. Some sections hold only one or two sessions of invited 

 papers by eminent specialists in their fields, leaving the major part of the 

 programs to the affiliated and associated societies. 



There are some affiliated societies, such as the Society of the Sigma Xi, 

 whose interests are not limited to special fields. Their representatives on the 



