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The PSYCHOANALYSTS OF CALIFORNIA held their second meeting in San Francisco, September 14–15, 1940. Under the chairmanship of Dr. E. Simmel, the following papers were read: Comments on Freud's Outline of Psychoanalysis, Dr. S. Bernfeld; Some Aspects of the Physiology of Instincts, Dr. D. Brunswick; Schizophrenia and the Compulsion Neuroses, Dr. B. Kamm; Prolegomena to a Psychoanalytic Psychology of Thinking, Dr. O. Fenichel. Dr. Fenichel presided at a Symposium on Neurotic Disturbances of Sleep. Dr. Bernfeld was chairman of a third session in which Dr. Simmel presented a paper on Regression, Repression and Organic Disease. The last session was devoted to the discussion of special problems of psychoanalysis in California. The meeting was addressed among others by Dr. Karl Menninger, Secretary of the Topeka Psychoanalytic Society, and by Dr. Robert Knight, President of the Topeka Psychoanalytic Society who pointed out the present status of psychoanalysis in the United States, and its special relationship to the field of general medicine. It is the present plan of the psychoanalysts in California to meet in the spring and the autumn of each year.