Page:The Harveian oration, delivered before the Royal College of Physicians, Wednesday, June 27th, 1877 (IA b22314623).pdf/27

 form. But as it is one of the functions of the Harveian orator to speak "in commemoration of those who have added aught to the sum of medical science in the course of the bygone year," I believe myself to be only fulfilling the trust confided in me if I dwell upon the earnest work which we see on all sides, and which, in spite of malevolence and misconstruction, is leading us on step by step to more perfect knowledge, and enabling us more and more to benefit our fellow men.

Two of our distinguished contemporaries of this College I have already named-one, alas! no more whose names will shed lustre upon the present time. But there are many, both in and out of this College, whom this country may be proud of, and whom we cannot but think that Harvey would gladly have extended the right hand of fellowship to, and have recognised as fellow-labourers. Scientific medicine of the present cannot fail to command the grateful ac- knowledgments of our descendants with such an array of names as Billing and Watson, Burrows, Williams, Carpenter, Sharpey, Beale, Paget, Ben- nett, Simon, Radcliffe, West, Sanderson, Johnson, Brown-Séquard, Lockhart Clarke, Murchison, Handfield Jones, Richardson, Garrod, Wilks, Pavy, Dickinson, Harley, Hughlings Jackson, Hutchinson, Bastian, Ferrier, and many others, whose researches have already secured them a