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 70 bearer in this College ; but there is little or nothing of special interest to us in the rest of the record, beyond the fact that Harvey appears to have attended the College meet- ings and so to have discharged his duties, amongst which the providing for the con- tingency of a siege and famine was one. Mr. Pettigrew (Medical Portrait Gallery, 1 840) has put on record the fact that Har- vey's signature is to be found in the Liber Computorum of Merton. The College Re- gister, however, is not so enriched, as I can state upon the authority of Mr. E. Maude Thompson, who compared the pages relating to Harvey's wardenship with the autograph MS. in the British Museum, when I took the Register up to London for that pur- pose n. n Mr. E. M. Thompson has made another search for Harvey's missing MS. De Anatomia UniversS, which Dr. Lawrence mentions at p. xxxi. of his Harveii Vita (ed. 1766), and which Dr. Willis tells us at p. vii. of his Preface (ed. "Willis) had then (1847) Deen twice looked for in vain. Mr. Thompson's search has also heen equally fruitless ; he writes to me thus, under date June 3, 1873 : — ' Harvey's Anatomy was once upon a time in the British Museum. In the first volume of the old MS. Catalogue of