Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie, an English surgeon, born at Winterslow, Wiltshire, June 9, 1783, died at Betchworth, Surrey, Oct. 21, 1862. He was educated at a free school in London, and under Sir Everard Home at St. George's hospital, where he became assistant surgeon in 1808, and afterward surgeon. In 1811 he received the Copley medal of the royal society for his physiological papers in the "Philosophical Transactions." From 1819 to 1823 he was professor of anatomy at the royal college of surgeons. In 1834 he was created a baronet; and in 1837 he became sergeant surgeon to the queen. He was a member of several learned societies at home and abroad. He suggested important improvements in many kinds of surgical instruments, and in numerous cases substituted simple and less violent methods of surgical operation. He published numerous articles in the medical journals, and a series of physiological papers on the action of the nervous centres in the production of animal heat, in the " Philosophical Transactions" from 1810 to 1812. His published works, some of which have passed through several editions', are: " Pathological and Surgical Observations on Diseases of the Joints" (1818; 5th ed., 1850); "Lectures on Diseases of the Urinary Organs" (1832; 4th ed., 1849); "Physiological Researches " (1851); and " Psychological Inquiries" (1854; 3d ed., 1856). - His son, the present Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie, born in 1817, was appointed professor of chemistry at Oxford in 1855, and was president of the chemical society in 1859 and 1860. He has contributed to the " Philosophical Transactions " and the "Journal of the Chemical Society".