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THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE NATIONAL COMMITTEE FOR MENTAL HYGIENE announce the election of Dr. Adolf Meyer of Baltimore as President of the National Committee, to succeed Dr. Arthur H. Ruggles of Providence, Rhode Island. Dr. Meyer is Professor of Psychiatry of Johns Hopkins University and Director of Henry Phipps Psychiatric Clinic, Baltimore, which he founded in 1913. Often referred to as the dean of American psychiatry, Dr. Meyer has long been the acknowledged leader of his profession and has exerted a wide and deep influence on the growth and development of psychiatric thought and practice both in this country and abroad. His former pupils occupy leading posts as teachers and practitioners of psychiatry throughout the United States and in many foreign countries. He has been President of the American Psychiatric Association, American Neurological Association and the American Psychopathological Association. He is a member of numerous scientific societies and has received academic honors from various universities here and abroad. Dr. Meyer collaborated with Clifford Beers in the founding of The National Committee for Mental Hygiene, in 1909, and gave the mental hygiene movement its name. He is Chairman of the National Committee's Advisory Committee on Psychiatric Education, and was one of the organizers of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, established in 1934. He was the first Salmon Memorial Lecturer in psychiatry and mental hygiene at the New York Academy of Medicine.