Notes

THE ISAAC RAY AWARD was granted to Gregory Zilboorg, M.D. at the meeting of the American Psychiatric Association in Los Angeles, May 1953. The award is made annually to a psychiatrist or to a lawyer in the interest of furthering mutual understanding between these two professions. The award is commemorative of Dr. Isaac Ray, a founder and one of the first presidents of the Association, whose Treatise on the Jurisprudence of Insanity (1838) was a pioneering work in this field. The winner of the award is invited to give from three to six lectures in a university which includes faculties of law and medicine.

Dr. Zilboorg will deliver six lectures on The Psychology of the Criminal Act and Punishment at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, October 14, 21 and 28 and November 4, 11 and 18, 1953, under the joint sponsorship of the Law School and the School of Medicine. The lectures will subsequently be published by Harcourt, Brace & Company.

Dr. Zilboorg is Chairman of the Committee on the History of Psychiatry of the American Psychiatric Association, Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the New York Medical College, and Associate Clinical Professor of the New York State University Medical School. He is chairman of the Section on Historical and Cultural Medicine of the New York Academy of Medicine, and author of Mind, Medicine and Man, A History of Medical Psychology, and of other books and numerous articles including Legal Aspects of Psychiatry, published in One Hundred Years of American Psychiatry, for the centennial of the American Psychiatric Association, 1844-1944.

The board of selection of the Isaac Ray Award is composed of Doctors Francis J. Braceland, Hartford, Connecticut; Frank J. Curran, Charlottesville, Virginia (Chairman); LeRoy M. A. Maeder, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Winfred Overholser, Washington, D. C.; Paul Schroeder, Atlanta, Georgia; George S. Stevenson, New York City; and lawyers Ralph C. Busser, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Walter A. Edwa