Editors: ALAN MONCRIEFF.
It has long been felt by those concerned either with the health or with the education of children that a close study of growth and development both physical and psychologic conducted on the same group of children in a parallel series of observations would yield valuable basic material. In 1947 Dr. D. H. Geffen, Medical Officer of Health of St. Pancras and Professor Alan Moncrieff of the Institute of Child Health placed before the Governors of the Foundling Hospital in London a scheme for utilizing their excellent facilities on Coram Gardensresidential nursery, day nursery and nursery schoolfor teaching and research purposes.