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The article presents information on the meetings of the Gamma Chapter of Texas of the sociological society Alpha Kappa Delta at the University of Texas. At the first meeting for the spring semester, Professor Genevieve Wilcox, a member of Gamma Chapter, read a very interesting paper on "The History of Laredo (Texas)." The next three meetings we considered the following papers, given by members of the Gamma Chapter: "The Background of European Sociology," by Kathleen Thompson; "The Background of American Sociology," by Josephine Evans; and "Trends in Attitudes Toward the Data With Which Sociology Deals," by Rex Hopper.

The article focuses on the meetings of the Beta of Missouri chapter of the organization Alpha Kappa Delta at Washington University. At the October meeting, Professor David Carpenter presented a paper on his bicycle tour of Europe, stressing the customs of the various peoples he observed. At the November meeting Professor John Winget presented a resume of his thesis.

The article focuses on the Southwestern Social Science Association meetings in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, on April 15 and 16, 1937. Thirteen members of the Beta of Texas, the chapter of the organization Alpha Kappa Delta of Southern Methodist University attended the meetings. The Student Sociology Section elected officers for the coming year from the members of the Alpha Kappa Delta organization. Association Member David Steinicke presided during the presentation of several research papers, among which one was concerning the urban beer tavern read by Member H.B. Simmons of Southern Methodist University.

This article presents information on the sixth annual meeting of the National Student Sociological Conference to be held on December 29, 1938 in Detroit, Michigan, in conjunction with the meeting of the American Sociological Society. The aim is to exchange ideas of outstanding students of Sociology, as well as to provide an interesting program consisting of the presentation and discussion of student papers and research projects. As part of the program, a student luncheon and meeting for the selection of next year's officers will be held. All students attending and registered in the conference will be eligible to take part.

This article presents information on the meeting of the Alpha Chapter of Indiana of the sociological society Alpha Kappa Delta at the Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana, held on October 21, 1937. Professor Read Bain, of Miami University, addressed the Alpha Chapter of Indiana University with his paper "Sociology As a Natural Science." Bain introduced his subject by discussing different concepts of the status of sociology. Next, Bain turned to philosophy to establish the basis on which sociology is proceeding. Tracing the history of epistemology and ontology, he pointed out the changes of thought.

The article reports on the meetings of the Beta Chapter of Missouri of the sociological society Alpha Kappa Delta at Washington University in Saint Louis Missouri. At the October 1938 meeting, Elbert L. Hooker, a professor in sociology, read a very interesting paper on the sociology of fraternal life. At the November 1938 meeting, Professor Deborah Jensen gave an illuminating sociological account of her observations in Ireland, England, Holland, Germany and Denmark earlier in the year. Another meeting will be held on December 9, 1938, and will be addressed by Professor Julius Jensen on the working of Socialized Medicine in present day Germany.

The article presents information the meetings and activities of the Delta of Ohio chapter of the Alpha Kappa Delta organization at Delaware, Ohio-based Ohio Wesleyan University. The chapter has been holding its usual monthly meetings on the first Tuesday of each month. It was early decided that, for the most part, the programs should consist of student reports on articles in the learned journals and the presentation of student research papers. Delta is pointing its efforts toward several new projects. First, the group is sponsoring one of the daily chapel programs. All in all Delta seems to be a going organization with a proper membership, a functioning program committee, challenging faculty advisers, and several all campus projects.

Information about several papers discussed at the meeting of the Alpha Kappa Delta student program at Ohio State University, Ohio, in December 1941. Chapter representatives approved resolution concerning responsibilities of each member of the student program. Every chapter representative is expected to disseminate the program to the attention of the student members and to assist the student program committee in every way possible to arrange other programs.

Information about several papers discussed at the meetings of various chapters of the United Chapters of the Alpha Kappa Delta in the U.S. is presented. Officers of each chapters are always concerned on the growth of the fraternity, election of new officers and acceptance of new members. The meetings featured several speakers including Dr. Leon Ellis.

Presents information on the 25th Annual Meeting of the British Association of Dermatology and Syphilology which will be held at the House of the Royal Society of Medicine in London, England from July 6 to 7, 1945. Programme highlights; Announcement for members who wish to take part in the meeting's discussion or read papers.

Information about several papers discussed at a meeting of the United Chapters of the Alpha Kappa Delta in Ohio. Officers each chapter have suggested initiation ritual for member of the said fraternity. The meeting featured several representatives of each chapter including Catherine S. Baker of Alpha Missouri.

The article focuses on the 1946 Spring Meeting of the British Grassland Society. It was called this year at Pendley Manor, Tring, on the Hertfordshire-Buckinghamshire border, when seventy members hailing form all over the British Isles assembled for a couple of days erudite discussion on grassy subjects ranging from purely laboratory matters to the wider aspects of grassland output in its relation to the farm economy. The first day's meeting started with an exceptionally lively General Meeting. The President, Sir George Stapledon, as Chairman, was at the top of his form and continued solidly with paper reading.

This article reports that the Yorkshire and Lancashire Province of the National Agricultural Advisory Service (NAAS) of the British Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food held a technical conference in Leeds on October 31, 1947 to discuss the research topic "The Utilization of Grass." Delegates from Agricultural Executive Committees, the National Farmers' Union and Young Farmers' Clubs were invited to participate in the meeting. Researcher S.J. Watson, reportedly, gave a paper on "The Food Value of Grass and Grass Products" in which he discussed the food value of plants at different stages of growth, of hay and losses in hay-making, of dried grass and silage. Researcher O.B. Chartres' paper on "Grass Drying on the Farm" pointed out that almost any farming system could be adapted for grass drying. It is further reported that the NAAS, Wales, conference at Crosswood, Aberystwyth, on February 5 was addressed by researcher W.D. Hay on "Grassland Development and the Home Production of Feeding Stuffs," researcher Moses Griffith on "Maximum Production and Utilization," professor Trevor Thomas on "Increased Production From the Grasslands of Wales," and researcher Albert Davies on "Forage Crops."

This article focuses on the research paper "The Conservation of Fodder Crops for Winter Feeding," read by researcher R.E. Slade at a meeting of the Farmers' Club on December 1, 1947, held in London, England. In this paper, Slade expressed the opinion that it was the artificially low price of subsidized imported oil-seed cakes that was holding up the development of silage making and grass drying in this country. Oil cakes, reportedly, were scarce but the farmer asked for more rather than invest in silage or dried grass. He felt that not until the subsidy was removed would the farmer see the value of the feeding stuffs he could produce at home.

This article reports that the 1948 Annual Meeting of the British Society of Animal Production was held on February 18, at the Royal Agricultural Society of England, Bedford Square, London, England. Since the general topic of the meeting was "Animals and Grass," the members of the British Grassland Society have attended and contributed materially to the discussion. The morning session, reportedly, was given to a discussion on "Animals As Means of Evaluating Pasture Production." There were four papers followed by a long and interactive discussion. The afternoon discussion on "The Use of Grassland and Its Products by Animals" was opened by three farmers farming different types of country. A full discussion on ever recurring round silage, particularly trench silage, was followed.

This article reports that the Fifth International Grassland Congress will be held at Noordwijk in the Netherlands from June 22-26, 1949. It has now been arranged that this Congress will be followed by various excursions. It will probably be generally agreed that the Executive Committee of the Society should take upon itself the nomination of British delegates over and above those who have been selected to read papers. There is a proposal that a limited number of traveling scholarships might be made available for post-graduate students just beginning their grassland work. Members are requested to inform the Secretary of the British Grassland Society if they wish to be considered as part of the British delegation to the Fifth International Grassland Congress.

This article focuses on the British Grassland Society Winter Meeting, which was held at Newcastle in England from January 4-5, 1949. The Meeting was well attended, nearly 100 members from the practical commercial and technical fields taking part in a programme which included visits to two farms to see silage that had been made under somewhat different conditions, but which in each case was being fed to dairy cattle, and a paper reading session and discussion, the general topics being pasture evaluation and the elimination of errors in trials and experiments. On the morning of the first day, members visited the farm of W. Rutherford, which lies, on the upper reaches of the Tyne at East Mill Hills, near Hexham. The 430 acres of this farm ranged in altitude from 230 to 880 feet above sea level. Rutherford keeps a dairy herd of British Frisians and it is his intention to have eventually a de-horned pedigree herd. The livestock consisted of 44 cows in milk or in calf, 24 bulling heifers, 17 yearlings and 15 heifer calves.

The article presents information about a general meeting of the "Association for the study of Animal Behavior." The meeting was held on the January 8, 1951, in the Meeting Room of the Zoological Society of London, England. Some 14 papers were either presented or read in title and discussion was facilitated by the pre-circulation to those taking part of copies of the papers themselves. The opening paper "The Critical Approach in Grazing Behavior Studies," by leading agricultural scientist D.E. Tribe and Mr. J.G. Cordon, of the Rowett Research Institute, noted the marked advances in the recognition of the importance of animal behavior studies in agriculture.

The article presents the proceedings of a discussion of K. C. Wheare's paper on the powers that must be possessed by a union of states, at the World Congress of Sociology and Political Science held in Zurich, Switzerland on September 4, 1950. Professors Akzin of the University of Jerusalem, Puntambekar of Nagpur University, Bichara Tabbah of the Faculty of Law in Beirut and Calogeropoulos-Stratis of the School of Political Science in Greece gave their separate commentaries on the paper.

The article reports on the two Round Tables held by the International Economic Association in Talloires, France in August and September 1951. The Executive Committee and the Programme Committee for the 1952 Round Table met between the two meetings. The Round Table on the Teaching of Economics was presided by C. W. Guillebaud. The Round Table on Monopoly, Competition and Their Regulation presented several papers on the subjects.

Information about several topics discussed at a meeting conducted by the Research Committee and Programme Committee of the International Sociological Association in Paris, France on December 22, 1951 is presented. Professor David Glass was elected chairman of the meeting. The assistant executive secretary reported that the First Conference papers and proposals had been mimeographed. The attendees agreed on conducting a Second Working Conference on Social Stratification and Social Mobility.

Information about several papers discussed at a meeting conducted by the Steering Committee of the International Political Science Association (IPSA) in Cambridge, England from April 6 to 10, 1952 is presented. Participants of the event include professors J. Barents and M. Bridel. During the meeting, it was agreed that the second IPSA Congress will be conducted in the Hague, Netherlands. Attendees also agreed to expand the membership of IPSA.

Information about several papers discussed at the 15th annual meeting of Southern Sociological Society held on March 28-29, 1952 in Atlanta, Georgia is presented. The interrelationship of social theory and social service programming for the handicapped was illustrated in the paper "Planning for the Blind in North Carolina," by Howard E. Jensen. Papers presented at the Friday evening session are "Some Applications of Cultural Anthropology in Modern Life" and "On Political Ecology."

The article presents the highlights of the third conference of the East African Institute of Social Research held in Kampala, Uganda from January 1 to 9, 1952. A scheme outlined in connection to political systems and a paper on traditions of tribal migration among the Inter-Lacustrian Bantu were discussed during the conference. Professor F. Lorimer explained a scheme for the collection of demographic data in East Africa during one session.

The article presents a paper, which is based on the proceedings of the Sixth International Grassland Congress held in State College, Pennsylvania from August 17 to 23, 1952. The research papers read at the conference gave a good idea of trends in grassland research and covered the viewpoint of a large proportion of the world. The papers in the plenary sessions were of a more general character and a speaker from New Zealand seemed to condense the general attitude very aptly. He stressed the relative rigidity of the grassland system and the elasticity of the animal and pointed out that in practice both may be abused temporarily to suit the immediate conditions.

The article focuses on proceedings of The Tenth International Congress of Dermatology which was held in London, England from July 21-26, 1952. The scientific program was divided into several parts. The major discussions took place at Bedford Women's College in the Tuke Hall, which held about five hundred participants. These discussions were translated simultaneously into English, French, German and Spanish. The main topics of the Congress were "The Pathogenesis of Eczema," "ACTH and Cortisone: Effects on the Skin and Skin Diseases," and "The Treatment of Tuberculosis of the Skin and Allied Conditions." Numerous other papers were offered concurrently in other halls of Bedford College.

The article presents the highlights of the meeting of the third section of the International Sociological Association's Second World Congress of Sociology on recent developments in sociological research held in Belgium in 1953. Also tackled at the congress was the problem of values. It says that majority of the papers contained factual reports on developments in teaching and research. It notes that the papers on national and local developments in teaching and research represent all countries.

The article presents the minutes for the meeting of Alpha Kappa Delta society which was conducted on September 10, 1954 at the University of Illinois in the U.S. The suggestion to expand the society's official publication "The Alpha Kappa Deltan" and the additional of prizes for the best papers from undergraduate and graduate students were not approved by the members. The conference had also discussed the disposition of the society's surplus funds.

Information on several issues discussed at a meeting held by the International Research Office on the Social Implications of Technological Change in Paris, France in March 1954 is presented. In his paper, H. J. Herskovits looked at the problem of fitting the individual into a new economic environment. Psychologists claim that the idea of motivation relates to the physiological condition peculiar to the human system.

The article reports on a meeting conducted by the International Political Science Association from April 5 to 10, 1954 in Florence, Italy. The meeting focused on various topics related to comparative government. Some of the papers tackled the nature, scope and purpose of the study of comparative government and politics, democratic control of foreign policy, contemporary revolutionary movements and research methodologies.

The article reports on the Fourteenth International Congress of Psychology which was held in Montreal, Quebec on June 7-12, 1954. The congress consisted of evening addresses, symposia and sessions of research papers on topics with major importance related to psychology. Clinical papers discussed the implication of clinical findings and the papers on industrial psychology were concerned with the social and technological factors in productivity.

The article offers information about the Expert Meeting on the Promotion of Teaching of Race Questions in Primary and Secondary Schools held from September 19 to 23, 1955. Key speakers during the meeting include Dr. Cyril Bibby of the University of London and professor Juan Comas of the University of Mexico. Topics of papers discussed include teaching on race relations and anti-Jewish bias in school education.

Information about several papers discussed at a symposium during the 12th Congress of the International Association of Applied Psychology held from July 18-23, 1955 in London, England, is presented. C. B. Firsby calls on psychologists to pay more attention to the attitudes of the subject of their research. Professor Morris Viteles, in his paper entitled "The New Utopia," expressed concern about the relation of psychologist to society.

The article provides information on a round table meeting on comparative law conducted by the International Association of Legal Sciences at Brasenose College in Oxford, England in September 1955. The discussion focused on the audi alteram partem rule to define problems raised in administrative law by the application of the law. Participants in the discussion are listed. The working papers presented during the event are discussed.

The article reports on the International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences held at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia from September 1 to 9, 1956. Emphasis was given to American archaeology, pre-history and problems of mass communication and acculturation. Lectures about applied anthropology, linguistics and museography were conducted. A list of papers presented in the congress is also presented.

Information about several papers discussed at a meeting on legal sciences is presented. A study was conducted by the International Association of Legal Science on the reception of Western law in India. Participants at the meeting include judges of the Indian Federal Supreme Court, the Chief Justice of the Sudan, and a French sociologist specializing in the study of Indian society. The reception of English law in India is discussed.

Information about several papers discussed at a conference on the cultural integration of immigrants is presented. Some of the participating countries were Australia, Brazil, Canada and Chile. A number of topics were addressed at the conference including the problem of integration, participation in community life, and the requirements of the receiving countries. The conference featured an address by Cuba's Minister of State Gonzalo Guell.

The article highlights several papers discussed at a meeting of the International Economic Association's (IEA) Council and Executive Committee in Rome, Italy in September 1956. The meeting featured several professors of economics including H. S. Ellis, L. Baudin and D. Delivanis. Information is presented on the future activities of the council. In addition, the council considered some applications for membership and a possible extension of the number of countries affiliated to the IEA.

Information about several papers discussed at the European Centre of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace is presented. Eric Choisy tackled the basic concepts that should be considered to understand automation. Hervey G. de Bivort argued against the claims that automation has serious impact on employment. Charles Levinson commented on the adoption of automation in the machine-tool industry.

Information about several papers discussed at the seminar "The Social Effects of Industrialism," held by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization in London, England from September 10 to 20, 1957 is presented. The seminar featured various lectures and discussion groups. Seminar speakers and lecturers highlighted the problems associated with industrialism.

Information about several papers discussed at the first meeting of the International Sociological Association's Research Sub-committee on Industrial Sociology on June 27 to 29, 1957 is presented. The meeting focused on issues concerning the participation of employees in management and the problem of ownership of industry.

Information about several papers discussed at the International Congress on the study of savings problems held in Paris, France from September 30 to October 3, 1957 is presented. The congress discussed issues concerning the changes in the behavior of individuals on savings and the efforts launched to urge people to save. A list of the countries that participated in the event, including their representatives, is presented.

Information about several papers discussed at the International Congress on Industrial Training, held in Rapallo, Italy on February 3 to 8, 1958 is presented. Conference attendees included psychology and sociology experts, vocational training teachers, industrial leaders and trade unionists. The event was sponsored by the European Productivity Agency and the International Organization of Employers.

The article reports that the Winter Meeting of the British Grassland Society will be held in London, England on December 12, 1958. The general theme for papers and discussions will be "Intensive Grassland Management for Sheep." The 1958 Summer Meeting of the British Grassland Society was held at Whitley Bay, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, from July 14-16, 1958. Over 140 members, many of whom were accompanied by their wives, attended. On July 15, members toured north Northumberland and visits were paid to Snipe House, Alnwick; Elwick, Belford; and West Learmounth, Cornhill-on-Tweed.

This article presents information related to International Society of Tropical Dermatology. Under the sponsorship of the International Society of Tropical Dermatology, the Third International Symposium Dermatologicum, Medical Mycology, will be held from October 4-6, 1966, in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia. Topics covered include epidemiology of dermatophytoses transferable from animals to man and Current problems of deep mycoses and progress in mycological immunology. Deadline of registration of papers is December 31, 1965.

Presents a recap of the events that transpired during the summer meeting of the British Grassland Society, held at the Newscastle Upon Tyne, England. Attendees; Activities and programs; Details of the conference sessions.

The article presents information on an international association for the scientific study of mental deficiency. The meeting will be held in Washington D.C., from August 22-27, 1976. Those wishing to present papers should contact the under noted, and forward a brief synopsis in English, French or Spanish before December 1, 1975 to the Royal Scottish National Hospital at Scotland.

The article informs about the 1975 winter meeting of the British Grassland Society (BGS). It reports that an offered-paper session will be held on the afternoon preceding this meeting. Members are invited to offer short papers, which deal with recent research progress or practical problems of grass and forage-crop production and utilization. Members who would like to present a paper are required to send 6 copies of a 200-word summary to arrive at the BGS office on or before 15 May 1975.

The article presents summaries of invited papers read at the winter meeting of the British Grassland Society in London, England on December 4, 1974. The theme of the meeting was "winter feeding for beef production." It is reported in one of the summaries that beef producers are facing a crisis situation with a collapse in returns to the producer; in consequence most producers are confused and are uncertain of the future. The crisis is caused by a combination of escalating costs and falling returns. Rising concentrate prices have been the main factor in increasing costs in many systems, a direct reflection of high world cereal prices, which are likely to continue in the foreseeable future.