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volumes contain biographies of a number of eminent surgeons and

physicians, which, accompanied by likenesses, have appeared in the Medical Midland Miscellany, now known as the Provincial Medical Journal. Each paper contains details of the life and work of its subject. Each volume contains twenty-five memoirs. In the first we see the names of Sir H. D. Acland, Dr. Alfred Carpenter and Dr. W. B. Carpenter, Charles Darwin, Dr. Farr, Sir W. H. Flower, Sir W. Foster, Dr. B. W. Richardson, Sir '1'. Spencer Wells, Sir W. Gull, and Sir Erasmus Wilson ; in the second, Sir James Crichton Browne, Mr. Ernest Hart, Mr. J. P. Teale, Sir Morell Mackenzie, and Dr. A. R. Simpson.