The American Foundation was established in 1924 by Edward Bok, and has had as its goals the objective study of various public questions and the publication of the findings. It has had as projects the study of the judicial settlement of international disputes, the relations of record between the United States and the Soviet Union, the problems involved in methods of distributing and financing medical care, and finally a midcentury survey of medical research. The latter has just been published in two volumes, one of which takes up the principle and practice of American medical research, and the second which discusses unsolved clinical problems.