Perhaps no procedure in surgery is more useful than a well conducted and successful skin grafting. By it a permanent granulating surface may be made to heal or a hideous deformity may be transformed into a scarcely noticeable disfigurement. Much depends on the condition of the surface to be grafted, the type of skin grafting chosen, and the technic of its accomplishment. My purpose is to make clear some of the most important points in skin grafting, obtained in an extended experience with all methods. When one considers various hospital services, one is astounded at the waste of time consumed in dressing granulating wounds, and the countless visits that are made subsequently to the outpatient departments. These could all be avoided, as well as the later contraction of old wounds, by the immediate resort to any one of the various methods of epithelial covering of the wound. To clear the