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Rh operation were desirous of sending the leg to the medical school at Trinity College, Dublin, but Bohan's friends, hearing of their intention, broke into the house of Dr. Garland at Laragh, County Wicklow, and carried away the leg, burying it at once in the churchyard at Glendalough.

ii. John Porter, of Woodbank, Roundwood, County Wicklow, in 1896 injured his arm in a threshing-machine so seriously that amputation was necessary just below the shoulder, successfully carried out by Drs. Garland and Taylor at Rathdrum. His relatives then wrote a letter to his employer, asking him to lend them a market-cart in which to convey the arm to the burial-ground at Glendalough, to be interred in the family grave there.

Ch. Ch., Oxford.

photographs reproduced in Plate I. were taken by myself at St. Cergues-sur-Nyon, in the Canton of Vaud, where I accompanied Miss L. E. Broadwood in August, 1903. They exemplify the objection to being photographed without permission, which was shown by the inhabitants. The boy standing on the ground in the upper photograph was holding a log of wood when he first caught sight of me, and quickly dropped it to pick up the sticks which he is seen holding cross-wise in front of him. The boy on the load of wood looks as if he were making "the horns" with his fingers, but I do not think he noticed me at all. In the lower photograph two children are hiding their faces, another is turning his back, and another, apparently, crossing his fingers before his face. The grown-up people showed the same objection, and usually retreated quickly out of reach of the camera, unless I had first asked permission to include them in the photograph; in which case they would pose with alacrity. I