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 great value to those not possessed of the same qualities.

In the brief remarks that I have ventured to offer to you, I have dwelt upon the modern mani- festations of the Harveian spirit in scientific research. But Harvey has left us other features in his character worthy of imitation. Time does not serve to speak of more than the one that especially recommends itself to the Fellows and Members of this College, for it was the liberality of Harvey by which the resources of the College have so largely benefited. His munificence pro- vided the former library and museum; he endowed the College with his patrimonial estate of Bur- marsh; and left to it his "bookes, household stuffe, pictures, and apparell;" his "best Persia long carpet" his "blue embroyedyed cushion, one pair of brass and irons, with fire-shovell and tongues of brasse, for the ornament of the meeting-room".* This example has not been left without imitators in the present Fellows of the College, who, in their self-denial and gene- rosity, have of late years repeatedly shown them- selves to be not unworthy recipients of Harvey's gifts. It affords me particular pleasure to an- nounce publicly, for the first time, the special act of liberality of a recent distinguished Harveian

College of Physicians, vol. i. p. 132.
 * Quoted from Harvey's Will; see Dr. Munk's Roll of the Royal