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14. Although you should avoid saying things the audience already knows, please give credit to previous authors on the same subject, and include a few words on how your ideas relate to those of others who have done or are doing similar work. We believe that it is important to include as complete a bibliography as possible at the end of your paper.

15. Please cooperate with your session organizer and his review committee, and abide by the established schedule. Our review procedure have worked well in the past whenever the review committees applied them rigorously and the authors cooperated. Our review procedures and schedules are designed to help you prepare a paper of the highest possible quality under the prevailing circumstances; a paper which will be useful to your audience and your readers and which will thereby increase your own professional stature. Your cooperation will help us to stage a successful conference which will help our audience, our profession, and our industry. 

When we invite a national audience to attend one of our meetings, the companies and organizations which send their engineers rely on the good names of our sponsoring societies to guarantee that the presentations at the meeting will be worthwhile. In turn this reflects on our authors, since our selection and review procedures are designed to provide assurance that our authors are generally outstanding leaders in their fields.

16. The Sesquicentennial Forum of Transportation Engineering will be the second meeting in a series which started with the National Transportation Symposium, May 1-6, 1966, San Francisco. The proceedings of this first Symposium have been published in a hard covered volume by the ASME Order Department, 345 E. 47th Street, New York, N.Y. 10017.

17. This meeting will be administered by the New York Academy of Sciences and cosponsored by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) and the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE). The name of this second meeting has been selected to fit it into the pattern of some 25 major technical and scientific meetings being held in New York during 1967 by the New York Academy of Sciences in celebration of its Sesquicentennial Year. The Academy is a membership organization with some 25000 members, about 20% of which are overseas. It consists of 16 Sections including Environmental Sciences, Instrumentation, Geological Sciences, Engineering, Mathematics, and Planetary Sciences. Each Section organizes a monthly meeting during the academic year; in addition some 20-30 annual conferences are held.  The length of these conferences is usually 2 to 4 days and the average attendance is about 700; some of them attract an international audience.

18. It is regretted that this "information sheet" contains so many small details, but the success of a meeting of this type depends on each participant doing his part, even with respect to small things. As an author you would do well to realize that there is little virtue in a lengthy presentation. Spend as much time as you can streamlining your written paper and especially your oral presentation. Remember that "the mind cannot absorb what the fanny will not endure!"