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The First Moscow Psychiatric Institute is the oldest psychiatric clinic in the Soviet Union and Volume II is dedicated to the one hundred and thirtieth anniversary of its foundation. Some of the best work of Russian psychiatry has been done in this clinic. To the outside world the clinic is best known because of Korsakoff's work on toxic polyneuritis which was done there. Volume II contains twenty-two papers on various problems of clinical psychiatry and three articles on the history of the clinic. The most interesting paper covers the day care of psychiatric cases, a unique treatment which has been developed by Russian psychiatrists. Day care clinics are a combination of a large out-patient department and a sheltered work shop to which go psychiatric patients who have been discharged as partially recovered from mental hospitals, but who cannot adjust themselves to everyday life in a community. Hence a special environment is created for them where they can spend a whole day, partly at work, partly at various types of social, musical and artistic activities where the process of socialization goes on, and partly following their own inclination.