As members of the Committee on Reform in Legal Procedure of the American Institute of Criminal Law and Criminology, we were commissioned last spring to visit England and make a study of criminal procedure in that country. Our mission was endorsed by the President of the United States and the Attorney-General, and the State Department furnished us with introductions to the representatives of our government in England. We spent four months in England attending the sessions of the criminal courts of London from the Magistrate's Court to the Court of Criminal Appeal, and at the invitation of a judge of the King's Bench, we went on circuit and witnessed the assizes in one of the largest cities in the country. Our work was greatly facilitated by the American ambassador and the American consul-general in London, who did all in their power to make our investigation sulccessful; and the kindness and courtesies shown us by the members of the Bench and Bar of England with whom we became acquainted can never be repaid. In. our investigations much of the information was obtained from personal observation, interview, and conversation, and we submit herewith a concise statement of matters of special