IN THIS issue of the A. M. A. Archives of Surgery will be found three papers written by Prof. P. I. Androsov, M.D., of the Sklifosovsky Institute, of Moscow, and Scientific Research Institute of Experimental Surgical Apparatus and Tools, U. S. S. R. Ministry of Public Health. They were sent to Major Paul Schafer (MC), U. S. Army, with the request that they be reviewed by the editorial board of one of the American surgical journals for publication, and Major Schafer, knowing of our desire to publish his and Dr. F. H. Ellis' observations made on recent trips to the Russian surgical clinics and hospitals, sent the papers to the editors of the A. M. A. Archives of Surgery. They have been reviewed and accepted for publication. The readers, we are sure, will find much of interest in the methods of anastomosing blood vessels by a mechanical apparatus, about which