CALIFORNIA
Hospital News.—
The psychiatric department of Mount Zion Hospital, San Francisco, announces a series of four discussions on psychotherapy in general practice as follows: March 6, "History of Psychotherapy"; March 13, "Essence of Therapeutic Relationship"; March 20, "Modern Treatment of Neuroses," and March 27, "Psychotherapy in Children."
Clinical Conferences and Postgraduate Courses.—
The committee on postgraduate activities of the California Medical Association is sponsoring clinical conferences and postgraduate courses throughout the state under the auspices of the local county medical societies. One will be held in Bakersfield on March 16 by the Kern County Medical Society. At the clinical conferences in Fresno on February 2, 9 and 16 the speakers were Drs. Garnett Cheney, San Francisco, and Edmund W. Butler, San Francisco, on peptic ulcers and pneumonia, respectively; Ernest W. Page, Berkeley, some problems in gynecology and obstetrics, and Clark M. Johnson and Edgar A. W. Wayburn, San Francisco,