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In the 1919 edition of Da Costa's Surgery, there is an illustration of a full-thickness skin graft which was accomplished by Dr. George Summers Brown, a former surgeon of Birmingham. Ala., and by Dr. J. M. Mason, for the correction of a burn deformity of the hand. The result of this operation, performed some time before 1910, is excellent, and better than many obtained to-day in single operations for such lesions. As Doctor Brown was a member of the Southern Surgical Association, perhaps nothing could have made him happier than to be present at this Anniversary Meeting, and it is in his memory that I would like to present the following communication.