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portions Canada. as to constitute a national asset toAwuw.-At the annual meeting of The American Psychiatric Association in Los Angeles, Dr. Gregory Zilboorg received the Association’s $i,00o Isaac Ray award, for his professional contributions to the field of legal problems connected with mental disorders. Dr. Zilboorg will deliver six lectures on “The Psychology of the Criminal Act and Punishment” at Yale University on October 14, 21, and 28 and November 4, ii, and i8, under the joint sponsorship of the Law School and the School of Medicine. The lectures will then be published by Harcourt, Brace & Co. Dr. Zilboorg is chairman of The American Psychiatric Association’s committee on the history of psychiatry, clinical associate professor of psychiatry at the New York Medical College, and associate clinical professor of the New York State University Medical School. He is also chairman of the section on historical and cultural medicine of the New York Academy of Medicine, and author of several well-known works, including the oft-quoted History of Medical Psychology. The Isaac Ray Award, commemorative of Dr. Isaac Ray, a founder and early President of The American Psychiatric Association, is given annually to a lawyer or psychiatrist with a view to furthering understanding between the two professions in questions of forensic psychiatry.FOUNDATIONS’PSYCHIATRY.-ThCSocial a grant ofRs&ucH IN Research Foundaappro#{231}imately sixresearch toYale University and requested the Corporation of Yale University to establish the Foundations’ Fund for Research in Psychiatry. The distribution of the fund will not be confined to Yale. The new foundation will...