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 College been so fully embued with a consciousness of its high calling, and a desire adequately to fulfil its important duties, as in the present; and that the many labourers in the fields that Harvey cultivated justify a humble admirer of the many distinguished contemporaries, with which it is my honour to be acquainted, in designating the pre- sent age as especially deserving of the title of the Harveian era of medicine.

It is for the younger generation of the present, and for those who are to follow, to see that the Harveian spirit suffers no abatement. Let them walk in Harvey's footsteps, and they will cer- tainly receive their reward, in the acquisition of profounder knowledge; in the freer recognition of the value and aims of medical science by their fellow-men; and, above all, by the assurance of greater power and control over the dark in- fluences that still chequer life and hamper man's onward march to a more elevated and spiritual existence.

THE END.