It was with deep regret that members of the British Psycho-Analytical Society heard of the death at Manchester, in August 1939, of Mrs. Alice Bálint.

Her brief career—she was barely forty-one at the time of her death—began soon after the end of the last war in Berlin, where she was elected an associate of the German Psycho-Analytical Society in 1923. She later returned to her native Hungary and continued her training under Ferenczi, whose ideas and methods exercised a profound influence on her all through her life. In 1926 she became a member of the Hungarian society and was shortly afterwards elected to its Training Committee. Thereafter her activities were uninterrupted. Her scientific work, much of which was published in the various psycho-analytical periodicals, had a special bias in the direction of ethnological and educational interests. An Austrian colleague writes that 'she was especially well-known and appreciated in the countries