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June 1981 Meeting of the Very Successful Both Scientifically and Financially ERICAN PHYSIOLOG CIETY Founded in 1887 for the purpose of pr the increase of physiological knowledge and its utilization. OFFICER President Earl H. Wood, Mayo Med. Sch., Rochester, MN President- Elect Francis J. Haddy, Uniformed Services Univ. of Hlth. Sci., Bethesda, MD Past President Ernst Knobil, Univ. of Pittsburgh SOCIETY AFFAIRS Council Proposed Amendment to the Bylaws ................... ii Earl H. Wood, Francis J. Haddy, Ernst Knobil, Jack L. Kostyo, President’s Summary Report .......................... 1 S. McD. McCann, Paul C. Johnson, Leon Farhi APS 125th Business Meeting .......................... 2 Executive Secretary-Treasurer Committee Reports .................................. 4 Orr E. Reynolds, 9650 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, Maryland Learning Resource Center in Atlanta .................... 14 20014 Ray G. Daggs Award ................................. 15 Honors and Awards .................................. 15 Abbott Laboratories Membership Status .................................. 16 Of ............ 19 Burroughs Wellcome ‘Inc. Careers Committee Fall Meeting Symposium. CBA Geigy Corp. izer, Inc. Statistics on APS Membership. ........................ 20 Grass Instrument Co. Revlon Health Care Group Proposed Modification of Election Plan. ................. 22 AA. Robins COG, Inc. APS 32nd Annual Fall Meeting ......................... 23 andoz, Inc. 54th President of APS ................................ 25 D. Searle 8 Co, Survey of Departments of Physiology. .................. 26 mith Kline 8 French Labs, Constitution and Bylaws .............................. 32 APS Sections ....................................... 35 Chemical Corp. Letters to the Editor .................................. 38 Eli Lilly and Co. Application and Instructions. .......................... 39 McNeil Laborat Two New Journal Editors ............................. 43 Another New Book .................................. 43 Res. Labs. Women in Physiology ................................ 45 Current Attempts to Prevent the Use of Animals in American Journal of Physiology: Cell Physiology Medical Research . ..Mauric e B. Visscher .............. 47 American Journal of Physiology: Endocrinology, and Metab- Careers for Physiologists in Government ................ 48 olism EMBERSkllP NEWS American Journal of Physiology: Gastrointestinal and Liver News from Senior Physiologists. ....................... 50 Physiology ~~O~~CE~E~~S American Journal of Physiology: Heart and Circulatory Physi- 13th International Cancer Congress. .................... .I3 01 WY Harold D. Green Symposium .......................... 25 American Journal of Physiology: Regulatory, Integrative and Forthcoming Meetings of Chronobiology................ 44 Comparative Physiology Symposium: Basic Biology of Muscles ................. 44 American Journal of Physiology: Renal, Fluid and Electrolyte Lucien Dautrebande Prize ............................. 44 Physiology American Journal of Physiology (Consolidated) Journal of Applied Physiology: Respiratory, Environmental THE PHYSIOLOGY TEACHER and Exercise Physiology Sodium Transport in Frog Skin .. .Thomas J. Sernka ...... 55 Journal of Neurophysiology Current Trends in Physiology Teaching in Finland Physiological Reviews ... 0. Hanninen, J. Leppaluoto, and D. Stenberg ....... 58 The Physiologist FromtheEditor ...................................... 57 Handbooks of Physiology Declining Popularity. ................................. 62 Clinical Physiology Series Book Reviews THE PHYSIOLOGIST is published bimonthly by the American Introduction to Bioinstrumentation . ..L. A. Geddes ....... 60 Physiological Society at 9650 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, Maryland Growth Hormone and Other Biologically Active Peptides 20014. Address all correspondence to this address. ... Lloyd J. Forman ................................. .6l Subscriptions: Distributed with The Physiology Teacher to Evolution and Ecology of Plankton Communities members as a part of their membership. Non-members and in- .. .T.E. Bowman .................................... 61 stitutions, $15.00 per year in the United States; Canada, Renal Handling of Phosphate . ..Joh n A. Haas and $16.00: Foreign and postal Union, $17.00. The American Franklyn G. Knox .................................. 61 Physiological Society assumes no responsibility for the statements and opinions advanced by contributors to THE PHYSIOLOGIST. i for vste at f 0 nominate a ertain person for for Council he mus April 4045, 1981 Atlanta, Georgia Earl H. Wood, President During approximately 24 hours of discussions held over the In relation to FASEB meetings, Council affirmed sponsorship 6-day, April 11-14 period before and during the FASEB meetings of the Society of Mathematical Biology as a guest society for in Atlanta, Council listened to and discussed the reports from 1982 and the Society of General Physiologists for the 1984 Spring chairmen of 14 of the Society’s standing committees and task FASEB meeting in response to requests from these societies. forces. Since these reports were posted during the meetings and A proposal was received from the Biomedical Engineering will be published in 7he physiologl’st, only items of,particular in- Society for APS sponsorship of its application for membership in terest will be mentioned herein. FASEB. An ad hoc committee was appointed to evaluate the ap- It is noteworthy that for the first time in several years, the parent value of such action to APS and FASEB and formulate Society operating fund is in the black for the present year. Conse- recommendations to Council. The Society for Experimental quently, no dues increase will be necessary for at least another Biology and Medicine is polling its membership concerning the year; however, the current high rate of inflation will make a dues desirability of applying for membership in FASEB with APS increase necessary probably in 1982 unless President’s Reagan’s sponsorship. economic recovery program is phenomenally successful. In this regard, APS representatives have been instructed by The sectionalization of the Society’s journals continues to be Council to sponsor a proposal at the June 1981 meeting of the very successful both scientifically and financially. The Society is FASEB Executive Committee that a method be found to eliminate indebted to the leadership of the Publications Committee, chaired duplicate assessments for individuals who are members of by Dr. Alfred Fishman and the efforts of Mr. Stephen Geiger and multiple FASEB societies. his staff at Society headquarters for this excellent state of affairs Dr. Robert Krauss presented a proposal to Council that FASEB in this predominantly important function of American Physiology. purchase an additional 1.6 acres of land in order to provide an ad- In the area of Public Affairs, negotiations are being initiated ditional buffer against ongoing condominium residential with a legislative affairs consultant in Washington with the objec- developments which will abut against the FASEB campus. Pro- tive of seeking assistance in society relationships with pending curement of this land would improve the prospects of obtaining legislative actions affecting physiology; initially with particular zoning permits for construction of additional office space for reference to animal experimentation. Society members are urged FASEB member societies. Despite the reservations voiced by to read the discussion in the April/May 1981 issue of The APS Council that the depletion of reserve funds required for this Physiologl’st concerning pending legislation at both local and na- purpose might interfere with early construction of badly needed tional levels which, if passed, would impose severe restrictions on new office space, this proposal was approved by the FASEB the availability and use of laboratory animals. Board. In this regard, a motion was unanimously approved requesting The two major provisions upon which this approval was based the Committee on Animal Care and Experimentation, chaired by were I) that initiation of the purchase be predicated on the receipt Helene Cecil, to organize a workshop on animal experimentation of a one million dollar grant currently under consideration by an issues at the Fall Meeting in Cincinnati to be cosponsored by the extramural donor, and 2) that the balance of the approximately Association of Chairman of Departments of Physiology. 1.5 million dollar purchase price be covered by a $500,000 mort- The Centennial Celebration Committee is actively planning and gage on FASEB property for a period of five years at an interest promoting historical publications and other activities in prepara- rate of 12%. The interest and principal payments on the mort- tion for the 1987 Centennial of the Society. Their recommenda- gage can be met from income (currently at 20%) from current tion that the Centennial Meeting be held in August 1987 in FASEB reserve funds. Successful execution of these two provi- Bethesda, Maryland, hosted by the Uniformed Services Univer- sions would allow purchase of this land without an increase in sity of the Health Sciences, was approved. Various agreements assessment to FASEB members. with the National Library of Medicine, NIH, and the Smithsonian opinions were expressed by Council that the role of FASEB as Institutions to participate in exhibits and other contributions to an umbrella organization for the Biomedical Sciences is being this meeting are being formulated. clarified and that APS should continue to critically monitor The critically important
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