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This article presents information on the research papers presented at the annual meeting of National Association for Research in Science Teaching (NARST) in New York City. Most of the research papers were published in the journal "Science Education." One of the research papers related to elementary science was published in the October 1949 issue of the journal. Another paper was pubished in the February 1950 issue of the journal. Next meeting of NARST will take place from February 26-28 in 1950.

The article presents updates concerning the Operations Research Society of America as of November 1960. The Lanchester Prize Committee presented its report to the council of the society in May. The Ninth Annual Meeting of the society will take place in Chicago, Illinois from May 25 to 26, 1961. The council of the society took a number of actions about the operation of the society, including an arrangement approved under which the society would receive a grant from the National Science Foundation.

The Executive Committee has voted to cancel meetings scheduled to be held in Chicago on November 30, 1945.

The business session of the sixty-second Annual Meeting of the American Economic Association (AEA) was held in Hotel Commodore, New York City, at 5 P.M. on December 29, 1949. President of AEA, Howard S. Ellis presided. President Ellis, after a few words of welcome, presented a brief review of the Association activities of the past year, commenting particularly upon matters of program building, publications, and the work of committees. Of primary interest are the accomplishments of the Committees on Republications, Teaching, Research, Public Issues, Honors and Awards, International Cooperation with Foreign Scholars, and Aid to Foreign Scholars. Reports of these committees are published in the journal "Proceedings." Reports of the Secretary and Treasurer were then summarized by another executive of the Association, J. W. Bell, who called attention briefly to the continued growth of the Association, the large and active participation of its members in assuring the success of its publications and annual programs, and to the sound financial condition of its affairs.

The article focuses on the report by the representatives of the American Economic Association submitted in December 1951. According to the report the Social Science Research Council at its September meeting had sponsored a comprehensive discussion of areas of economic research in which the council might fruitfully concentrate its energies. At the council's annual meeting in September, 1953, it devoted a session to the progress which bas been made in the last two years. It is clear that the council is pushing ahead vigorously in several areas of great concern to economists. The Committee on Economic Growth has been active in promoting research in this area both in the U.S. and abroad. It is planning a series of four small conferences to be held in 1954 dealing with the topics, the influence of cities on economic growth and on cultural change in underdeveloped countries, economic criteria in the selection of investment plans affecting economic development, strategic factors in periods of rapid economic growth, and entrepreneurship and economic growth. The Council established during the year a new Committee on Agricultural Economics which is actively at work.

The article presents a report on the official acts and activities of the American Economic Association for the year 1953. The report gives the minutes of the executive committee meetings and the summary of the year's operations, with comments and interpretations. According to the report, it had been a year of steady growth and sound accomplishments all along the several lines of the association's main endeavors, namely, annual meetings, publications, committee activities, and co-operative relationships with allied associations, and with the councils. Interest in the status of the economics profession has been revived in the form of a number of petitions received from groups of members in different parts of the country. These petitions request the association to do something about formalizing the qualifications of "economist." The managing editor of the periodical American Economic Review reported a bumper crop of manuscripts for the four substantial volumes of the association's quarterly journal, and two supplements were issued to members without additional charge.