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. 8 DECEMBER 1967 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 S eee te pe ee we 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. 1365