CONTENTS

[Preface]

[Invocation]

[REV. FRANK H. SIMMONDS]

[Historical Review]

[EDWARD W. SHELDON, ESQ.]

President of the Society of the New York Hospital

["The Contributions of Psychiatry to the Understanding of Life Problems"]

[ADOLF MEYER, M.D.]

Director of the Henry Phipps Psychiatric Clinic, Johns Hopkins Hospital, and Professor of Psychiatry, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland

["The Importance of Psychiatry in General Medical Practice"]

[LEWELLYS F. BARKER, M.D.]

Professor of Clinical Medicine, Johns Hopkins Medical School, Baltimore, Maryland

[Greetings from the New York Academy of Medicine]

[GEORGE D. STEWART, M.D.]

President of the Academy

["The Biological Significance of Mental Illness"]

[RICHARD G. ROWS, M.D.]

Director of the Section on Mental Illnesses of the Special Neurological Hospital, Tooting, London, England

["The Relation of the Neuroses to the Psychoses"]

[PIERRE JANET, M.D.]

Professor of Psychology, College de France

["The Medical Development of Bloomingdale Hospital"]

[WILLIAM L. RUSSELL, M.D.]

Medical Superintendent

[The Tableau-Pageant]

[Names of Those Who Attended the Exercises]

[Appendix I]

[COMMUNICATIONS FROM DR. BEDFORD PIERCE]

Medical Superintendent of The Retreat, York, England

[EXTRACT FROM MINUTES OF BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE RETREAT, APRIL 30, 1921.]

[TRANSCRIPT FROM THE VISITORS BOOK OF THE RETREAT, 1803-17.]

[Appendix II]

A LETTER ON PAUPER LUNATIC ASYLUMS FROM SAMUEL TUKE TO THOMAS EDDY, 1815.

[Appendix III]

THOMAS EDDY'S COMMUNICATION TO THE BOARD OF GOVERNORS, APRIL, 1815.

[Appendix IV]

EXTRACTS FROM THE MINUTES OF THE BOARD OF GOVERNORS IN RELATION TO ACTION TAKEN RESPECTING THOS. EDDY'S COMMUNICATION DATED APRIL, 1815.

[Appendix V]

ADDRESS TO THE PUBLIC BY THE GOVERNORS, 1821.

[Appendix VI]

BOARD OF GOVERNORS OF THE SOCIETY OF THE NEW YORK HOSPITAL, 1821 AND 1921.

[Appendix VII]

ORGANIZATION OF BLOOMINGDALE HOSPITAL, 1821 AND 1921.