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18 th International Psycho-Analytical Congress, 1953. The British Psycho-Analytical Society, acting on the authorization of the 17th (Amsterdam) Congress, has proposed to the Executive of the Int.PA.A. that the 18th Congress be held at Bedford College (Regent's Park), London, commencing on Sunday, July 26, 1953.

A Conference of the European Branches of the International Psycho-Analytic Association. The British Psycho-Analytical Society plans to hold a conference in July 1952 and has invited members, associates and students of the European Branch Societies of the Int.PA.A. to participate.

The purpose of the Conference will be to enable scientific discussions to take place in small panels around a series of topics submitted by the participants. Apart from social events the conference will assemble in full only for the opening and the final sessions. The date of the conference has provisionally been fixed from Friday, July 4, 3 p.m., to Sunday, July 6, noon. All meetings will take place at the Institute of Psycho-Analysis, 63 New Cavendish Street, London, W.1. Members from Societies overseas will be welcome and should communicate with the Secretary, Institute of Psycho-Analysis, 63 New Cavendish Street, London, W.1.

Clarence P. Oberndorf. A dinner in honour of Dr. Clarence P. Oberndorf, distinguished psychiatrist and psycho-analyst, on the occasion of his seventieth birthday, will be given by his friends and colleagues on Friday evening, February 15, 1952, at the Waldorf Astoria in New York City. The British Society take this opportunity of offering Dr. Oberndorf their felicitations and of expressing their thanks for his invaluable help in the conduct of this journal.

Dr. Marjorie Brierley, a former member of the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Psycho-Analysis, has been appointed Assistant Editor in succession to the late Dr. John Rickman. Dr. Brierley is well known to the readers of this journal by her various papers on the theory and practice of