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(Dr. Ernest Jones, President of the International Psycho-Analytical Association, in the chair.)
I.The Minutes of the business meetings of the previous Congress were taken as read and accepted as correct.
II.The President read the following Report on the activities of the International Psycho-Analytical Association since the last Congress.
According to the Constitution of the Association, it is the duty of the President to present a report of the happenings since the previous Congress. I am glad to be able to say that the report I have to present is in all essential respects a favourable one. The progress made by the psycho-analytic movement since the last Congress has been very considerable, whether we consider the extension of our branch societies, the increased prestige of our science in the world, the literary activity in both publications and translations, and, most important of all, the increase in actual knowledge.
At the last Congress, it was necessary to review the events of the preceding seven years; lengthy reports were presented both by the President and by the leaders of the various branch societies. On this occasion, after so much smaller an interval, my report can be correspondingly condensed, the more so because closer contact between the various societies than was previously possible has enabled all the happenings to be rapidly communicated throughout the Association. It will be remembered that the last Congress expressed a desire that the next one should be held in a year's time. Soon