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The article offers information on various meetings related to biological sciences. It announces that a symposium on the fundamental aspects of the oviduct in animals and man will be held from July 31 to August 4, 1967 at Washington State University in Pullman, Washington, and an international symposium on algae, man and the environment, sponsored by Syracuse University in Syracuse, New York and the New York State Science and Technology Foundation, New York, will be held from June 18 to 30, 1967 in Syracuse. It offers information on the XIV International Ornithological Congress which was held from July 24 to 30, 1966 in Oxford, England. It mentions that the congress included Plenary Sessions in which recent advances in population ecology, physiology and systematics were reviewed.

The article presents an account of the book "Assessment of Human Motives," edited by Gardner Lindzey. The book summarizes the 1957 conference held at Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York, consisting of nine important papers by eminent psychologists.

Information about several papers discussed at the New York State Planning Conference for the Exceptional is presented. 35 of the leading New York State educators of exceptional children met in Syracuse, New York to discusse mutual problems and to devise ways of improving the educational programs in the schools of the state in order to meet the needs of handicapped children.

On September 31, 1968, young men in their 20's and 30's assembled at the Syracuse University Conference Center at Lake Minnowbrook in the Adirondacks to assess the contemporary dimensions of public administration. The participants, representing 27 different universities and agencies across the country, devoted three-and-a-half days to free and essentially unstructured discussion. The papers and some additional readings from the Public Administration Review were mailed in advance. Topics included normative theory, empirical theory, comparative public administration, administrative decision making, organizational theory,, collective negotiations in the public service and higher education for public service. The focus of public administration has been and remains public-administered organizations, but much greater emphasis and analysis should be devoted to the political and public context in which these organizations function. Public organizations must find additional supporters and resources to cope with the multiple revolutions now shaking them.