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The article provides information about the twenty-second Annual Meeting of the Southwestern Social Science Association held on April 11 and 12, 1941 at Dallas, Texas. On Friday, April 11, Accounting Luncheon Meeting was held in Room 3. Earl A. Sailers of Louisiana State University was the Chairman. Round-Table Discussion was held on the Present Status of "Principles of Accounting." In sociology section, meeting on "Social Standards in a Changing Society" was held in Room 428. Fred C. Watts of the Oklahoma Baptist University acted as the Chairman. William T. Chambers of Stephen F. Austin College was the chairman for the Geography Section. General discussion on "Industrialization in the Southwest," was presented by Elmer Johnson from the University of Texas and "The Paper and Pulp Industry of Texas," by Victor Schoffelmayer, The Dallas Morning News. In psychology section, meetings were held on "The Relation of Dominance Scores to Level of Aspiration in Mental Test Performance," and "The Influence of Number of Lists to be Learned upon Learning and Retention."

This article presents information on convention program of the Southwestern Social Science Association and the American Business Writing Association joint conference, held in April 1955, in Dallas, Texas. Some of papers presented in the meetings on various topics like accounting, agricultural economics, business administration, sociology, government, geography are: "A Well-Informed and Better-Guided Student," by William P. Carr; "Recent Developments in Accounting Research," by Charles T. Zlatkovich; "Course Content and Conduct," by Emerson O. Henke; "The Southern Farmer and Foreign Trade," by M.D. Woodin; "The Southern Farmer and Current Agricultural Legislation and Regulation," by William A. Faught; "A Comparison of Riparian and Appropriated Water Rights," by Wells A. Hutchins; "A Comparison of Land-Value Theories and the Everyday Operation of the Land Market," by Robert L. Tontz; "Geography of the Rainforest of Western Pichincha and Esmeraldas, Ecuador," by Luis Freile; and others.