Announcement has been made of the appointment of Dr. Robert P. Knight, Chief of Staff of the Menninger Clinic, Topeka, Kansas, as Medical Director of the AUSTEN RIGGS FOUNDATION, Stockbridge, Massachusetts, on the first of September, 1947. Dr. Knight has made many significant contributions to psychiatry and psychoanalysis, especially with respect to problems of alcoholism, the special techniques of psychotherapy in hospitals, the problems of adopted children, military neuropsychiatry, and a large number of investigations of therapeutic problems and of innovations in therapeutic techniques.