The
American Philosophical Society
Held at Philadelphia
For Promoting Useful Knowledge
ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
April 26, 27, and 28, 1962
PHILOSOPHICAL HALL
104 South Fifth Street
Philadelphia
THURSDAY AFTERNOON, APRIL 26
2 o'clock
HENRY ALLEN MOE
President, in the Chair
1. JOHN F. LEWIS, JR., and ELEANOR CAMPION
President and Executive Director, Union Library Catalogue
An Experiment in Intellectual Cooperation
[20 minutes]
2. M. B. EMENEAU
nia,
Professor of Sanskrit and General Linguistics, University of Califor
Berkeley
Bilingualism
[20 minutes]
3. RUDOLF ANTHES
sity
Professor of Egyptology, and Curator of the Egyptian Section, Univer
Museum, University of Pennsylvania
The Relation Between Egyptian and Greek Sculpture
and Thought in the Seventh and Sixth Centuries B.C.
[20 minutes]
4. FREDERICK A. POTTLE
Sterling Professor of English, Yale University
The Importance of Private Legal Documents in the
Writing of Biography and Literary History
[20 minutes; lantern slides]
5. HERBERT A. SIMON
Professor of Administration, Carnegie Institute of Technology
The Architecture of Complexity: Some Common
Properties of Complex Systems
[20 minutes]
6. ROGER REVELLE
Science Adviser to the U. S. Secretary of the Interior
A New Look at Natural Resources
[20 minutes; lantern slides; charts]
THURSDAY EVENING
6.30 o'clock
Informal Dinner
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN HOTEL
8.30 o'clock
PHILOSOPHICAL HALL
HENRY ALLEN MOE
President, in the Chair
R. A. F. Penrose, Jr., Memorial Lecture
ROBERT CUSHMAN MURPHY
Research Associate, American Museum of
Natural History
Fish Shape Paumanok
The Lecture will be followed by a Reception
FRIDAY MORNING, APRIL 27
9.30 o'clock
JESSE W. BEAMS
Vice-President, in the Chair
1. RICHMOND LATTIMORE
Paul Shorey Professor of Greek, Bryn Mawr College
Why the Devil Is the Devil
[20 minutes]
2. GEORGE F. BASS
Research Assistant, University Museum, University of Pennsylvania
A Bronze Age Shipwreck: Underwater Excavations
in Turkey
[20 minutes; lantern slides]
3. RAYMOND E. ZIRKLE
Professor of Biophysics, University of Chicago
Radiation Beams of Subcellular Dimensions in
Biological Research
[20 minutes; lantern slides; motion pictures]
4. PHILIP TAFT
Professor of Economics, Brown University
Labor History and Labor Issues of Today
[20 minutes]
5. JOHN C. LILLY, M.D.
Director, Communication Research Institute, Miami
Vocal Behavior of the Bottlenose Dolphin
[25 minutes; lantern slides; motion pictures]
6. JOHN T. EMLEN, JR.
Professor of Zoology, University of Wisconsin
The Display of the Gorilla
[25 minutes; lantern slides]
Luncheon for Members and Invited Guests, 12.30 o'clock
FRIDAY AFTERNOON
1.30 o'clock
JOSEPH H. WILLITS
Vice-President, in the Chair
SHAKESPEARE AND THE MODERN WORLD
1. Louis B. WRIGHT
Director, Folger Shakespeare Library
Shakespeare for Everyman
[20 minutes]
2. WILLIAM F. FRIEDMAN
Reader, Folger Shakespeare Library
Shakespeare, Secret Intelligence, and Statecraft
[20 minutes; lantern slides]
3. GEORGE WINCHESTER STONE, JR.
Professor of English, New York University; Executive Secretary of the
Modern Language Association of America
The Poet and the Players
[20 minutes]
4. HARRY LEVIN
Irving Babbitt Professor of Comparative Literature, Harvard University
Shakespeare Today
[20 minutes]
EXECUTIVE SESSION
3.30 o'clock
HENRY ALLEN MOE
President, in the Chair
Proceedings of the Council
Election of Officers, Councillors, and Members
Election of Committee on Finance, 1962-1963
Report of the President
Appointment of Committees
Reports of Committees
FRIDAY EVENING
7 o'clock
Reception and Annual Dinner
(Dress optional)
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN HOTEL
AWARDS
The Henry M. Phillips Prize
For a publication on the Science and
Philosophy of Jurisprudence
The John F. Lewis Prize
For an important paper presented
to and published by the Society
The Karl Spencer Lashley Award
In recognition of useful and significant
work in the field of neurobiology
The Langley Gold Medal of Aerodromics of
the Smithsonian Institution
to
HUGH L. DRYDEN
Deputy Administrator, National Aeronautics and
Space Administration
by
JEROME C. HUNSAKER
Member of the Board of Regents of the
Smithsonian Institution
ADDRESS BY
LEE A. DUBRIDGE
President, California Institute of Technology
The Place of Space
SATURDAY MORNING, APRIL 28
10 o'clock
WALLACE O. FENN
in the Chair
THE PRESENT STATUS OF THE RADIATION HAZARD
1. AUSTIN M. BRUES
Director, Biological and Medical Research, Argonne National Laboratory
Somatic Hazards of Radiation
[30 minutes]
2. HOWARD J. CURTIS
Chairman, Biology Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory
Types of Radiation and Mechanism of Action on
Living Organisms
[30 minutes; lantern slides]
3. WILLIAM L. RUSSELL
Laboratory
Principal Geneticist, Biology Division, Oak Ridge National
Genetic Hazards of Radiation
[30 minutes; lantern slides]
4. SHIELDS WARREN, M.D.
New England
Professor of Pathology, Harvard Medical School; Pathologist,
Deaconess Hospital, Boston
Safe Doses and Dose-Rates and Therapeutic or
Protective Measures
[30 minutes; lantern slides]
Luncheon for Members and Invited Guests, 1.00 o'clock
SATURDAY AFTERNOON
2 o'clock
Guided Tour
to
The Independence National Historical Park
for Members and Guests of the Society