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 valuable than the mutual respect and affection among ourselves, by which the honour of the profession has been advanced and the dignity of the College preserved—it would be in accordance with my duty to-day to recall to your memory the scientific achievements of Gilbert, of Glisson, or of Willis, of Jurin, of Thomas Young, of Wells, or of Prout, or the more strictly medical labours of Sydenham, or Heberden, or Bright. Nor less worthy of commemoration would be those Fellows who have dignified our community by their literary genius, as Arbuthnot; or by their taste and munificence, as Mead; or by the humanity and simplicity of their character, as Babbington, and Watson, and Parkes, and Wilson Fox.

The tradition, however, handed down for so many years seemed too strong to be broken, and I therefore invite you once more at this Harveian Festival to consider some aspects of the work of Harvey.