multidisciplinary, historical, philosophical features, and so-
cial implications of science) seems to have been achieved
in the new course being developed and tried through support of the Charles F. Kettering Foundation. The course
is for college students preparing for such fields as law,
business, political science, art, teaching, theology, psychology, sociology, and anthropology.
V.
L. Parsegian,
Alan S. Meltzer,
Paul R. Shilling,
Abraham S. Luchins, and K. Scott Kinerson.
H. Bentley Glass, “Pugwash” Interest in Communications.
STATISTICS (U)
Estimating the Numbers in Insect Populations (27 Dec.)
Arranged by E. C. Pielou (Canada Department of Agri-
INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS(T)
The Role of Museums in Modern Communications
(27 Dec.)
Arranged by Ileen E. Stewart (National Institutes of
Health).
Museums are moving into an era of diversification and
automation. Their role in the nation and the community
is changing rapidly as they attempt to serve many kinds
of people in many new ways. Long a reservoir of priceless materials, their storehouse is now being shared in
new and interesting ways with both laymen and scientists.
Museums are gradually assuming a more dynamic role
in the structure of higher education. Their importance
culture, Ottawa).
As the world’s population grows the struggle between
Participating AAAS Committees, Sections,
and Affiliated Societies
Committees: AAAS Committee on Arid Lands,
AAAS Committee on Science in the Promotion of
Human Welfare.
Sections: Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Astron-
omy, Geology and Geography, Zoological Sciences,
Botanical Sciences, Anthropology, Psychology, Social
and Economic Sciences, History and Philosophy of
as an adjunct to elementary education is increasing as
Science, Engineering, Medical Sciences, Dentistry,
Pharmaceutical Sciences, Agriculture, Industrial Science, Education, Information and Communication,
they develop new ways to reach a larger percentage of
the school children of the nation. In order to efficiently
and Statistics.
Affiliated societies: Academy Conference, Alpha
catalog, store and distribute the vast quantities of new
materials that reach them daily, museums are employing
Epsilon Delta, American Association of Bioanalysts,
American Association of Clinical Chemists, American
the computer. This symposium will attempt to describe the
Astronautical Society, American Educational Research
changes that are taking place in the country’s major mu-
Association, American Mathematical Society, Ameri-
advances.
Sidney R. Galler, James A. Oliver, H. Radclyffe Roberts,
Psychiatric Association, American Psychoanalytic As-
seums and the hoped-for effects that these changes will
have on public usage and education as well as on scientific
Herbert Friedman, and Donald F. Squires.
The Genesis of Information Systems: Hindsight and
Foresight (29 Dec.)
.
Arranged by Ileen E. Stewart (National Institutes of
Health).
Why and how do information services start? What pressures and what needs create the impetus and provide the
resources to initiate new systems? How are needs incorporated into design? How are changing needs discovered
and reflected in the system? Why have some services
succeeded and others failed? These are the kinds of questions that this symposium will attempt to answer. Speakers
will represent or discuss a variety of existing information
services, one defunct service and two in the early stages
of planning and/or implementation.
Richard L. Kenyon, Meyer Kessler, Joseph Caponio,
Karl F. Heumann, Norman E. Cottrell, and Joseph Becker.
Roles in the Processing of Scientific and Technical
Publications (26 Dec.)
Arranged by Ethaline H.
Cortelyou (National Insti-
tutes of Health).
Ethaline H. Cortelyou, Samuel Katzoff, L. Dillwyn Eckhard, Mary Schaefer, Mary Killilea, and George S. Haskins.
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can Meteorological Society, American Nature Study
Society, American Physiological Society, American
sociation, American Society of Criminology, American Society of Naturalists, American Society of Zoologists, American Sociological Association, American
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Section T Luncheon Address (29 Dec.)
Speech and Hearing Association, Animal Behavior Society, Association for Computing Machinery, Association of American Geographers, Biometric Society,
Central Association of Science and Mathematics
Teachers, Commission on Education in Agriculture
and Natural Resources, Commission on Undergraduate Education in the Biological Sciences, Committee
for the Experimental Study of Populations, Ecological
Society of America, Herpetologists’ League, Metric
Association, National Association for Research in Science Teaching, National Association of Biology Teachers, National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, Na-
tional Geographic Society, National Institute of Social
and Behavioral Sciences, National Science Teachers
Association, National Speleological Society, Paleontological Society, Phi Beta Kappa, Population Association of America, Science Courses for Baccalaureate
Education, Scientific Research Society of America
(RESA), Scientists’ Institute for Public Information,
Sigma Delta Epsilon, Society for General Systems Research, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Society for the Scientific Study of Religion,
Society of Systematic Zoology, Society of Technical
Writers and Publishers, The Society of the Sigma Xi,
and Torrey Botanical Club.
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