In the fall of 1965, the Institutes for Physicians and Nurses in the Care of Premature Infants at the New York Hospital-Cornell Medical center, under the sponsorship of the New York State Department of Health and the United States Children's Bureau, wi1l begin their seventeenth year of operation. The institutes are designed to meet the needs of physicians and nurses in charge of hospital premature nurseries and special premature centers, and of medical and nursing directors and consultants in state and local premature programs.