In the name of the Central Executive of the International Psycho-Analytical Association I have the honour of conveying to our beloved President our most heart-felt congratulations on the occasion of his fiftieth birthday. Quite recently Professor Freud paid a tribute to the magnificent services rendered by Dr. Eitingon to our Association, in the promotion of psycho-analytic training in general and the creation of the model Institute in Berlin. I would therefore remind you of the appreciation contained in the preface to Zehn Jahre Berliner Psychoanalytisches Institut, to which I can add but little on this occasion. We, as fellow-members of the Central Executive, can testify unanimously to the unostentatious and fruitful work done by Eitingon in composing the differences, small and great, which have arisen within the Association; I need only refer to the agreement ultimately achieved amongst all the Societies on the subject of lay-analysis. Brought, as we are, into intimate contact with him in