The objects and purposes of the National Committee have been very adequately summarized in the following language used in one of its publications:—"The National Committee for Mental Hygiene and its affiliated state societies and committees are organized to work for the conservation of mental health; to help prevent nervous and mental disorders and mental defect; to help raise the standards of care and treatment for those suffering from any of these disorders or mental defect; to secure and disseminate reliable information on these subjects and also on mental factors involved in problems related to industry, education, delinquency, dependency, and the like; to aid ex-service men disabled in the war; to cooperate with the federal, state, and local agencies and with officials and with public and private agencies whose work is in any way related to that of a society or committee for mental hygiene. Though methods vary, these organizations seek to accomplish their purposes by means of education, encouraging psychiatric social service, conducting surveys, promoting legislation, and through cooperation with the many agencies whose work touches at one point or another the field of mental hygiene. When one considers the large groups of people who may be benefited by organized work in mental hygiene, the importance of the movement at once becomes apparent. Such work is not only for the mentally disordered and those suffering from mental defect, but for all those who, through mental causes, are unable so to adjust themselves to their environment as to live happy and efficient lives." The first few years of the committee's existence have demonstrated conclusively that it is the most powerful factor in promoting the welfare and interests of the insane in this country since the time of Dorothea Dix. The elaborate surveys which it has made of conditions existing in various states have resulted in beneficial legislation which had been needed for years. Surveys have been completed in California, Tennessee, Louisiana, Pennsylvania, Texas, Connecticut, Georgia, Wisconsin and South Carolina, and others are under way. It has brought about an interest in mental diseases and mental defects such as has never been manifested before in this country. Its activities during the early part of the war were responsible largely, if not entirely, for the attention given by the Army and Navy to matters relating to psychiatry. The National Committee has taken a very active part in encouraging the establishment of psychiatric clinics in connection with the state hospitals. It has been largely responsible for the psychological and psychiatric examination of defectives in penal institutions and reformatories now generally recognized as being of vital importance. Its activities have emphasized the importance of a preliminary mental examination of obviously defective individuals brought before the courts. One of its