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The article offers information on various meetings of the American Bryological Society, the American Fern Society and the American Society of Plant Physiologists to be held at Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas between August 27, 1967 and September 1, 1967.

Presents news relating to the American Institute of Biological Sciences (AIBS) as of March 1, 2002. Vote of the AIBS Board of Directors to welcome the National Areas Association, the American Malacological Society, and the Orthopterists' Society into the AIBS federation; Participation of AIBS in a stakeholder meeting for a strategic plan for the United States Department of the Interior; Paper which was delivered by Matthew Greenstone of AIBS at the First International Symposium on Biological Control of Arthropods.

The article discusses the paper from the Commission on Undergraduate Education in the Biological Sciences (CUEBS) Symposium held in the U.S. The paper focuses on the relationship between research participation and good teaching. The publication of CUEBS, "Biology for the Non-Major," has raised questions about the structure of a biology course intended for the nonmajor. It cites that the replies on the questions have been edited into a book to present several perceptions represented in the letters of respondents. The author also stresses that the same technique was applied to address the problem of the assumed relationship that exists between research participation and good teaching.

Presents information on the National Ecological Observatory Network project of the Directorate of Biological Sciences at the National Science Foundation. Cost of the prohect; Opinion of the biological research community on the project; Features of the project.

The article reports that the American Microscopical Society (AMS) will celebrate the centennial ceremony of its foundation in the annual meeting of the American Society of Zoologists in Richmond, Virginia. The celebration will feature symposia with invited speakers, paper-reading and demonstration sessions. The founding fathers and early American leaders in microscopy and its application were numbered among the distinguished presidents of the society in pre-20th-century years. In 1884, the periodical "The Spencer-Tolles Memorial Fund," was established by the society in honor of two pioneer builders of American microscopes: the internationally respected Charles Achilles Spencer and Robert B. Tolles.

Presents an update on the American Institute of Biological Sciences as of July 2003. Comments of the association on the priorities for research infrastructure projects; Examination on a methodology for the assessment of research-doctorate programs; Overview of the 2004 annual meeting of the association.

The article offers news briefs related to bioscience. The Organization for Tropical Studies (OTS) has invited for reprints of papers related to biology in tropical areas and bibliographies dealing with tropical aspects of specialized areas. Gulf Coast Research Laboratory has completed its oceanography building in Ocean Springs, Mississippi. The National Library of Medicine has approved the post-graduate training of science librarians by the University of Tennessee.

The article presents information on various conferences related to biological sciences in the U.S. The Central and Midwestern State Simulation Council's symposium on simulation in medicine and biology will be held during January 17-18, 1967, in Rochester, Minnesota. International Symposium on Drug Research will be held during June 12-14, 1967, in Montreal, Quebec. The 10th national Wilderness Conference will be held during April 7-9, 1967, in San Francisco, California. The annual meeting of the Association of Official Seed Analysts (AOSA) was held in Vancouver, British Columbia, during June 17-24, 1966. At the meeting, there was discussion about the longevity and germination requirements of various seeds.

Discusses the teaching of bioethics among undergraduate students in the U.S. Factors to consider in teaching bioethics; Strategies for teaching bioethics; Details on the presentations about bioethics at the March 2003 national meeting of the American Institute of Biological Sciences.

This article offers news briefs concerning the American Institute of Biological Sciences (AIBS) as of July 2006. The Nominating Committee approved the nomination of candidates for the four vacant positions on the Board of Directors. The AIBS presented its major annual awards at a gathering of the AIBS Council of member societies and organizations on May 23, 2006. AIBS presented House Science Committee Chairman Sherwood Boehlert with an award commending him for his distinguished record of service to the scientific community and support for the biological sciences.

Information about several papers discussed at a symposium on the role of nitrogen fixation is presented. The conference focused on the rapidly growing interest in biological nitrogen fixation. The symposium featured several bioscientists including Claudino Rodriguez-Barrueco, William E. Newton and John Postgate.

Information about several papers discussed at the centenary meeting of the American Forestry Association (AFA) held on October 8, 1975 is presented. The purpose of the meeting was to assess the status of forest conservation, determine needs, and propose a program for future action. Speakers on forest and environmental topics included forestry expert Edward E. Palmer. A conservation policy was prepared by special working groups, professionals in natural resources and environmental affairs.

Information about several papers discussed at the Symposium on Gnotobiotic Research, co-sponsored by the Association for Gnotobiotics and the Microbiology Department and Lobund Laboratory, at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana on June 8-10, 1970 is presented. The topics discussed include the latest findings in gnotobiotic research. The symposium featured several personalities including P. C. Trexler, M. Dietrich, and M. P. Maley.

The article presents information on the American Society of Zoologists (ASZ). The society is considered to have provided arrangements for zoologists to assemble at yearly meetings for the interchange of ideas and information. A policy committee of the society was established which initiated a wide ranging program of activities providing additional services to zoologists and biologists. The society is also stated to have created the provision for the formation of divisions, partly to discourage further splitting off of new societies and partly to improve the organization of programs for meetings, which includes the Division of Animal behavior, the Division of Comparative Endocrinology and the Division of Comparative Physiology.

The article announces several appointments including the appointment of Ralph W. Phillips as president, W. Ralph Singleton as vice president and R.C. Carter as the secretary of the American Genetic Association.

The article presents information on various issues related to wildlife societies. Thomas S. Baskett has taken charge as the editor of "The Journal of Wildlife Management," which is an official publication of The Wildlife Society. Baskett is a professor of zoology, and leader of a wildlife research unit at the University of Missouri, Columbia. The Wildlife Disease Association has started the publication of the "Bulletin of the Wildlife Disease Association," through which it can communicate research papers on wildlife diseases to the scientific community.

Reveals that Yasmeen Qadim'asil, diversity and outreach programs assistant of the American Institute of Biological Sciences, attended the 89th annual meeting of the Ecological Society of America (ESA) held on August 1-6, 2004 in Portland, Oregon. Information on the Strategies for Ecology, Education, Development and Sustainability Program; Number of ecologists who attended the 2004 ESA meeting.

Information about several papers discussed at a symposium on developmental genetics of the early embryo is presented. The conference focused on several aspects of the molecular biology, cytology and genetics of the development of the embryo from oogenesis through organogenesis. The symposium featured several bioscientists including John B. Gurdon, Donald Brown and Eric H. Davidson.

Information about several papers discussed at the XVII General Assembly of the International Union of Biological Sciences (IUBS) held in Washington D.C. on October 1970. During the event, attendees passed the institution's first three resolutions endorsed by the International Council of Scientific Unions (ICSU).

The article offers news briefs for American Institute of Biological Sciences (AIBS) Inc. A well attended meeting commemorates the 99th yearly gathering of the American Fisheries Society in New Orleans, Louisiana from September 10 to 13, 1969. Professor J. R. Nursall is one of the three trustees who are elected for the Board of Trustees of BioSciences Information Service of Biological Abstracts. The American Society of Naturalists is one of the AIBS adherent societies that elected new officers.

The article focuses on the Public Responsibilities Committee of American Institute of Biological Sciences Inc. (AIBS). The committee was appointed during the year 1967 and its first meeting was held on March 1, 1967. It will work closely with the institute's staff in helping to identify legislation of importance to biologists. It will also collect information on pending federal legislation of importance to biology and human welfare. Members of the committee include George Clarke, George Sprugel and Edward Buss.

The article focuses on various developments related to American Institute of Biological Sciences Inc. (AIBS) during the year 1967. The Governing Board of the AIBS accepted the operating budget for the institute which was endorsed by its Finance Committee. The American Society of Limnology and Oceanography was admitted as an adherent society of the AIBS during the year. The application of the Midwestern Association of College Biology Teachers for adherent society membership was also considered. The AIBS also appointed the Public Responsibilities Committee.

Presents a calendar of meetings by the American Institute of Biological Sciences for February to March 2004. Annual Meeting of the Weed Science Society of America; Water Quality and Freshwater Gastropod Workshop, Freshwater Mollusk Conservation Society; Northeast Ecology and Evolution Conference 2004.

Introduces a series of articles on the activities of the scientific community related to the National Science Foundation's proposal for a National Ecological Observatory Network.

Presents briefs on activities done by members of the American Institute of Biological Science (AIBS) as of October 2005. Information on the online forum established by AIBS for biologists affected by Hurricane Katrina; Program and schedule of the 2005 annual meeting of the National Association of Biology Teachers on October 7, 2005 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Candidates for the AIBS president-elect.

Presents updates on the activities done by members of the American Institute of Biological Science (AIBS) as of May 2005. Winners of the 2005 AIBS Media Awards; Information on the 53rd national convention of the National Science Teachers Association in Dallas, Texas from March 31 through April 3, 2005; Articles and lessons found on the ActionBioscience.org Web site of AIBS.

Presents updates on the American Institute of Biological Sciences (AIBS) as of January 1, 2004. Report released by the AIBS detailing recommended plans for developing and governing the National Ecological Observatory Network; Deadline for applications for AIBS Emerging Public Policy Leader Award; Information on the 2004 AIBS annual meeting.

The life-sciences community has grown increasingly concerned that dangerous microbes or their products might be mishandled or misused, with serious harm done to human or ecosystem health locally, regionally, or globally. The community has sought to address this concern in cooperation with responsible governments, but it has also sought to act in ways not chiefly dependent on governmental initiatives or intergovernmental agreements. Concurrently, it has sought to obviate policies materially restricting scientific, entrepreneurial, or commercial freedoms. I ask whether the enhancement of biosecurity and the advancement of bioscience should be accepted as divergent or might yet be made complementary, so as to be accomplished jointly. Life scientists have long worked to reduce the risks their activities have posed to their patients and research subjects, to their societies, to their local and regional environments, and, not least, to themselves and their colleagues. In recent years, though, their route to risk reduction has become less and less routine. The life-sciences community--a self-assembled and self-aware body with amorphous borders but recognizable components--has grown increasingly apprehensive, if not fatalistic, about hazards in frontier research and about the mistakes and mischief made imaginable when once-exotic regions of frontier knowledge come within the biological commons. Five factors have accentuated this apprehension.

The article presents several developments related to the field of bioscience. T. Franklin Williams has been named director of the National Institute on Aging. Rita R. Colwell, a microbiologist at the University of Maryland's College Park campus, has been appointed vice president for academic affairs of the university's five-campus system. The Agricultural History Society, University of Missouri-Columbia, and Soil Conservation Service are offering a symposium on the history of soil and water conservation at Columbia, Missouri from May 24-26, 1984.

The article presents information on various developments in biology science. Philip Greeson has been elected president of the American Resources Association for 1982. The Conservation and Research Foundation has established the Jeanette Siron Pelton Award in Experimental Plant Morphology. Cornell University, Ithaca, New York and the University of New Hampshire, Durham, New Hampshire, are offering a series of noncredit summer courses that include nature photography, marine fisheries, island birds, marine mammals, science of the sea, and navigation.

The article presents various developments related to bioscience. Paul L. Sitton has assumed his new duties as executive officer of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and U.S. National Research Council. Since 1970, Sitton has been special assistant to academy President Philip Handler. Antioch University San Francisco offers a Master of Science Program in Ecosystem Management and Appropriate Technology, with emphasis on innovative approaches to the protection and management of biological systems. The Natural Areas Association, a new nonprofit organization, has been formed in response to the rapid growth in natural areas programs and the need to share information on them.

The article offers information on several developments related to life science. Florida Democrat Paul G. Rogers, chairman of the House Subcommittee on Health and Environment since 1971, has decided that he will not seek reelection. Perry W. Gilbert has resigned as director of the Mote Marine Laboratory in Sarasota, Florida, and has stated that he will return to his first love--research and writing about the biology and behavior of sharks. The World Sugar Research Organization has been formed to promote and coordinate research relating to sugar and its by-products, with particular attention to the study of sugar and health.

The article presents the author's comments on the article "Sociobiology, Another Biological Determinism." He says that the main issue at hand is vigilantism, the judgment of a work of science according to whether it conforms to the political convictions of the judges, who are self-appointed. He believes that the tactic which has been employed by members of the organization Science for the People against other scientists throws the person criticized into the role of defendants.

A letter to the editor is presented in response to the article "Environmental Crisis and The Wildlife Society."

The article offers information concerning biology-related institutions in the U.S. The Nature Conservancy has acquired 15,028 acres comprising the Aravaipa Canyon and the surrounding mountain and open land in Arizona. The National Association of Biology Teachers and Bausch & Lomb Inc. will be giving $1000 award annually to the author of a manuscript published in "The American Biology Teacher." The Commission on Undergraduate Education in the Biological Sciences has published a booklet titled "Funds for Undergraduate Biology Departments and How to Find Them."

Information on the topics discussed during the second annual meeting of the Society for the Study of Reproduction held on September 7-10, 1969 at the David Campus of the University of California in California is presented. Lecturer A. V. Nalbandov of the University of Illinois, has discussed the physiology of the corpus luteum in several species. The speakers likewise focus their discussion on gametes and fertilization, specifically gamete aging, ultrastructure of mammalian oocytes and ova.

The article presents information on adherent societies of American Institute of Biological Sciences Inc. The headquarter of the National Association of Biology Teachers has been shifted to Washington D.C. from Great Falls, Montana. Executive secretary Jerry P. Lightner will head staff in Washington office. M.F. Shaffer of Tulane University, New Orleans, has been elected president of the American Academy of Microbiology. George Maruyama has been elected president of the American Association of Bioanalysts. Ernest B. Lee has been chosen to be the president of the Federal Plant Quarantine Inspectors' National Association.

The article provides information about the Phycological Society of America (PSA) which was organized in 1946 and incorporated as an independent, nonprofit organization in 1964. It is an adherent society of the American Institute of Biological Sciences and an affiliate of the Botanical Society of America and the National Research Council. The PSA promotes the advancement of phycology and fosters research in taxonomy, morphology, cytology, ecology, physiology and biochemistry of the algae in the laboratory and in natural environments.

The article presents information on the election of new officers of several Adherent Societies of life sciences in the U.S. The American Fern Society has elected Donovan Correll as its President and Irving Knobloch as its Vice President. The American Genetic Association has elected Sam Price as its Treasurer and W. Ralph Singleton as its Secretary. Hobart Smith has been elected as President of the Society of Systematic Zoology, while Joseph Rosewater has been elected as its Treasurer. The U.S. National Association of Biology Teachers has elected Leland S. McClung as its President and Arnold B. Grobman as the President Elect. The American Society of Agronomy has elected L.A. Richards as its President and H.H. Kramer as its President Elect.

The article discusses the research conducted by Edward W. Voss, Jr., which provided evidence that d-lysergic acid (LSD) seriously hinders the ability of the body to recover from infection or disease. Voss states that antibody-producing spleen and lymph node cells incubated in the presence of minute quantities of LSD showed nearly total inhibition of antibody secretion. He concluded that either LSD or a metabolic byproduct of the drug may accumulate in tissue and exert these effects. Voss report was supported by the National Institutes of Mental Health and the Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association.

The article offers news briefs on American Institute of Biological Science (AIBS). It notes that the institute organized five new AIBS student chapters, which includes American Society of Parasitologists, Botanical Society of America, National Association of Biology Teachers, Phycological Society of America, and Wildlife Disease Association. The list of each societies officers is also presented.

The article offers information on the Joint Meeting of the Canadian Botanical Association L'Association Botanique du Canada and the American Institute of Biological Sciences to be held at the University of Alberta in Alberta, Canada on June 20-24, 1971.

The article explores the need to stop the unparalleled growth of population, and stresses the problems that may occur when the unparalleled growth continues. The author said that the U.S. and other developed countries must take the leadership in setting up world-wide institutions in which maternal and child health care is intimately coupled with family planning and population control advice. He suggested that the 2% unparalleled rate of population must be reversed to prevent insurmountable problems. He also recommended leadership-related ways that would help and prevent nations from having an overpopulation.

The article discusses the programs of many international agencies concerning the economic and cultural values of characteristic ecosystems. The Association for Tropical Biology held a Conference on Neo-tropical Botany in July 1962 in Trinidad to discuss the preservation of natural areas. The Association's working committees, the Preservation and Conservation Committee follows up the recommendations dealing with ecology and conservation. The International Biological Programme is a special enterprise of the International Council of Scientific Unions. The International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources has established six commissions to work for preserving wild species and other renewable natural resources.

The article offers information on the meetings of the American Bryological Society, the American Society for Horticultural Science and the American Society of Plant Physiologists to be held at Texas A&M University during the period from August 27, 1967 to September 1, 1967.

The organization and orientation of nonmedical microbiological science in the Soviet Union has been summarized Factors and forces shaping this field have been analyzed. Particular emphasis is given to physical facilities, man and womanpower, the research institute system, a natural history approach to microorganisms, and programmatic research as a part of the national plan. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Focuses on the American Fisheries Society (AFS), an American Institute of Biological Sciences member since 1870. Discussion of the activity of AFS in promoting research publication and education; Reference to AFS books, including 'Common and Scientific Names of Fishes'; History of AFS and background on AFS membership structure.

The article presents the outline of the Science Court experiment that will be made operational to sort out scientific truths through a process of cross-examination and judicial opinion. The experiment will begin with agreements between the Science Court Administration (SCA), the host institution, and the funding institution concerning plans for the experiment. The SCA, equipped with an issue and funds, will seek Case Managers (CM's) and fund their work for each side of the issue. The SCA will issue suggested procedures, suggested referees, and a panel of prospective judges. Challenged statements are first dealt with by a mediation procedure in which attempts are made to narrow the area of disagreement or to negotiate a revised statement of fact that both CM's can accept.

The article presents news briefs from various people and places connected with the American Institute of Biological Science (AIBS). President Donald F. Hornig of Brown University visited Nationalist China at the invitation of the Chinese Institute of Engineers and the National Science Council of the Republic of China. Richard Blazier received the 1st annual National Association of Biology Teachers-Baush & Lomb Award.

The article presents the plan in the joint meeting of the Canadian Botanical Association L'Association Botanique du Canada and the American Institute of Biological Sciences Inc. It is stated that the meeting will be held at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada from June 22-24, 1971. The meeting will be chaired by Wilson N. Stewart from the Department of Botany in the University of Alberta together with Samuel N. Postlethwait from the Department of Biological Sciences of Purdue University in Lafayette, Indiana. It highlights the participating societies and the schedules of field trips for the participants.