ANNOUNCEMENTS
International Congress for Internal Medicine.—The Sixth International Congress for Internal Medicine will be held in Basel, Switzerland, from August 24 to 27, 1960. This Congress will be organized in conjunction with the Swiss Society for Internal Medicine. For further details apply to the Secretariat of the Sixth International Congress for Internal Medicine, 13, Steinentorstr., Basel.
Conference on Mental Retardation.—The First International Conference on Mental Retardation will be held July 27-31, 1959, at the Eastland Hotel, Portland, Maine.
Registration can be accomplished by writing to International Medical Conference on Mental Retardation, c/o Division of Maternal and Child Health, State House, Augusta, Maine. A varied program will be presented. The speakers will be as follows: P. I. Yakovlev (Boston), E. Gellhorn (Minneapolis), D. Y. Hsia (Chicago), J. D. Spillane (Cardiff), W. F. Ingram (Iowa City), R. S. Paine (Boston), P. B. Diezel (Heidelberg), J. N. Cumings (London), H. Bickel