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Dear Friends,
Our first thought must be one of sympathy with the trial through which Abraham has recently been passing. I am sure that none of us has a more urgent wish than that he should make a rapid and complete recovery from his unfortunate illness.
Róheim's lectures here, also the paper which he read before the Royal Anthropological Institute2, proved very stimulating. We were glad to note that he has passed beyond his birth-trauma phase.
At our annual business meeting last week, the same officers were elected. Mr. Tansley3 was promoted to be a full member, the name of one associate member who had recently written an unsatisfactory book was omitted4 and two new associate members were elected.5 Following the instructions of the Congress, we elected an Education Commitee of five, consisting of the four directors of the Institute (Bryan, Glover, Rickman and myself) with the addition of Flügel.
The fourth volume of the »Collected Papers« has been slightly delayed by the labour of preparing an Index of the four volumes. Bryan completed this during his holidays and I have just corrected the proofs, so that the volume should appear in another two or three weeks.
The October number of the Journal should also appear within the same time.
I was glad to hear from Eitingon that he and Professor have persuaded Storfer to withdraw his resignation. Ferenczi and I expected at the Congress