THE LATE SIR JOHN RUSSELL REYNOLDS.
[To THE EDITOR OY THE " SPECTATOR:1
SIR,—In the Spectator of February 6th a quotation is given from the "Essays and Addresses of the late Sir John Russell Reynolds, Bart., D., F.R.S.," including an error that has escaped correction. This has on more than one occasion been rectified in the medical papers, and lately in the British Medical Journal for October 16th, the jubilee number on " Anmsthesia by Inhalation of Ether." We all feel grateful to Lady Reynolds for the publication of these essays, though we have to forego the author's revision. In an after-dinner speech he inadvertently gave my uncle's name instead of mine as the first to administer ether in England. At that time Mr. Peter Squire was unknown to him, so that he could not speak to his presence at the operation referred to. After- wards Reynolds and I lived together as students, and I then introduced my friend to my uncle.—I am, Sir, &c.,
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