The next award of the Hofheimer Prize of THE AMERICAN PSYCHIATRIC ASSOCIATION will be made at its Annual Meeting in May 1961. This prize of fifteen hundred dollars is awarded annually for an outstanding research contribution in the field of psychiatry or mental health which has been published within a three-year period up to the date of the award. Studies in press or in preparation are not eligible. The competition is open to citizens of the United States and Canada who were not over forty years of age at the time the study was submitted for publication; or to a research group whose median age does not exceed forty years.