THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE, Section on Medical Sciences, announces a symposium on Mental Health in collaboration with the American Psychiatric Association at its winter meeting in Richmond, Virginia, December 27–31, 1938. Collaborating in the enterprise in addition to the American Psychiatric Association (an affiliated body of the A.A.A.S.), are the United States Public Health Service, the Mental Hospital Survey Committee (composed of eight national medical bodies), The National Committee for Mental Hygiene, and a special committee of psychiatrists who are developing the program for the Symposium under the chairmanship of Dr. Walter L. Treadway, Assistant Surgeon General of the Public Health Service in charge of mental hygiene activities. It will be the first time in the history of American psychiatry and the mental hygiene movement that the subject has received the special attention of this scientific body as a major topic on its agenda.