BEKHTEREV, VLADIMIR MIKHAILOVICH (185 7 19 2 7) , Russian neuropathologist, was born in the province of Viatka. He studied medicine in the medico-surgical academy at St. Petersburg (now Leningrad). In 1884 he went abroad to do research work under Du Bois-Reymond, Wundt and Charcot, and was appointed professor at the University of Kazan, where he started clinical research of mental diseases and promoted the first psycho-physiological laboratory. In 1893 he became professor of the Military Medical Academy in St. Petersburg and was elected director in 1905-6. To foster psycho-physiological research, he founded in 1907 in St. Petersburg a psycho-neurological institute, which existed on private donations up to 1917, when an additional brain institute was formed and both were taken over by the gov ernment. He published more than soo scientific papers on pa thology and anatomy of the nervous system and founded a society of neuropathologists and the periodical Nevrologitcheski Vestnik. Bekhterev died on Dec. 24, 1927, at Moscow. On the celebration of his loth birthday he received the title of "Scientist Emeritus." His work on The Nerve Currents in Brain and Spinal Cord ap peared first in Russia in 1882 ; the second edition in 1896 has been translated into French and German (1894). The Functions of the Nervous Centres appeared in Russia in 1909; his Psychology Objectively Demonstrated was published in 1910 (Fr. trans. by N. Kotyleff, 1913 ) ; and his General Diagnosis of the Nervous System Diseases in 191 1 ; General Basis of the Reflex Action of Man; a Treatise of Objective Biological Study of Personality (3rd ed. 1926).