The Welsh Division became a formal entity in September, 1972 with the election of Officers and an Executive Committee. The discussions preceding the setting up of the Divisional machinery were greatly facilitated by the fact that already a very high proportion of psychiatrists in Wales were members of the Welsh Psychiatric Society. This group had already been meeting for two weekends and two single day meetings every year since 1960 with a judicious mixture of clinical lectures and social activities. Discussions therefore centred less on how psychiatrists could be brought together than on how the new Division could be brought into being without losing the benefits of the Welsh Psychiatric Society with its enthusiastic supporters, financial assets and freedom of action and membership. In practice this appears to be working out well and the two organizations continue to flourish symbiotically. The Welsh Division has taken over the organization of some of the clinical meetings and the political functions, and the W.P.S. continues to arrange weekend clinical meetings and to permit a wider link up of professional people interested in psychiatry by its more open membership. The Society has also recently offered an annual prize in psychiatry to students of the Welsh National School of Medicine.