News and Notes

The American Psychosomatic Society will hold its Twelfth Annual Meeting at The Claridge Hotel in Atlantic City on Wednesday and Thursday, May 4 and 5, 1955. This Meeting will be immediately preceded by those of the American Society for Clinical Investigation and the Association of American Physicians. It will be followed by the meeting of the American Psychoanalytic Association.

The Program Committee would like to receive titles and abstracts of papers for consideration for the Program no later than December 1, 1954. The time allotted for the reading of each paper will be twenty minutes. The Committee is interested in investigations in the theory and practice of psychosomatic medicine as applied to adults and children in all of the medical specialties, and in contributions in psychophysiology and ecology.

Abstracts for the Program Committee's consideration should be submitted in duplicate, and should be sent to the Chairman Lawrence S. Kubie, M.D. at 551 Madison Avenue, New York 22, New York.

Fellowships to Study Poliomyelits

The National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis announces the availability of a limited number of fellowships to psychiatrists who are interested in the emotional problems of the physically handicapped, particularly of the poliomyelitis patient with respiratory difficulties.

These fellowships are awarded as a part of the program of professional education of the National Foundation for which more than $19,000,000 in March of Dimes funds have been appropriated since 1938.

In order to be eligible for these fellowships, physicians must have completed two years of graduate training in psychiatry acceptable to the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, be U. S. citizens (or applicants for citizenship), and be in sound health.

The applicant must propose a program of study to be undertaken in a center concerned with rehabilitation of the physically handicapped which has affiliations with an approved