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At a dinner given to him by the President and Council of the Dublin College of Surgeons,1 Sir B. Brodie is reported to have said, " In their steps, the English college was glad to follow * * *. The mode of curing the formidable disease of aneurism by a bloodless operation was brought into notice by Irish surgeons, and would, he was convinced, supersede every other plan. Such triumphs as these secured its pre-eminence for the school of surgery of Ireland, and he trusted it would be long enjoyed." And " Before the evening closed, Sir Philip Crampton, alluding to the instance of an Irish improvement in surgery which their eminent guest had adverted to, took the opportunity of presenting Sir Benjamin Brodie, in the name of the council, with a gift of trifling value, but which perhaps he might be gratified to receive. It was a complete set of the instruments used in the treatment of aneurism by compression, of which, together with a copy of Dr Bellingham's work on the subject, he requested Sir Benjamin's acceptance." Our first impression on reading this statement was, that there must have been