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The Freud Memorial Room, which is part of the library of the New York State Psychiatric Institute and Hospital, has acquired special equipment through the generosity of Dr. A. A. Brill. The Memorial Room has for its purpose the filing of psychoanalytic works, the nucleus being part of Freud's personal library, consisting of 814 items—books, monographs, pamphlets, etc. Through the liberal offer on Dr. Brill's part, permanence is assured for the collection of Freudiana. Access to it is open, for reference purposes, to historians, research workers, and students of psychiatry.
The New York State Psychiatric Institute and Hospital aims ultimately to acquire a complete psychoanalytic library. Those who wish to place their psychoanalytic books and allied data for permanent security should communicate with the Director, New York State Psychiatric Institute and Hospital.
Since the passing of the American Quarterly Journal of Inebriety, now some years ago, and the more recent demise of the British Journal of Inebriety, we know of no concerted effort to collect the material bearing on alcoholism in the English literature. This is all the more astonishing since no more immediate cause for wayward, disconcerting and positively pathological human behavior exists that compares with that induced by the intemperate use of “fiery spirits “. Thrice welcome therefore a new series of studies on Alcohol, the Quarterly Journal of Studies on Alcohol, just issued, June, 1940, from 4 Hillhouse Avenue, New Haven, Conn., under the aegis of a committee of whom Dr. Howard W. Haggard is the present chief director.
This first number is highly creditable and its 200 pages augur well for the Journal, the yearly subscription to which is but $3.00. There are papers by Y. Henderson, A. Myerson, N. D. C. Lewis, a review by Drs. J. Beazell and A. Ivy on Alcohol and the Digestive Tract. Dr. Norman Jolliffe contributes an excellent review of Alcohol and the Adequacy of B Vitamins in