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 THE

HARVEIAN ORATION.

1886.

MR. PRESIDENT,

COLLEAGUES, AND GENTLEMEN,

My instructions are explicit. Once every year, said Harvey, in the deed of conveyance of his patrimonial estate as a gift to the College, some one shall make an oration publickly in the College, "wherein shall be a commemoration of all the benefactors of the said College by name, and what in particular they have done for the benefit of the said College, with an exhortation to others to imitate those Benefactors and to contribute their endeavours for the advancement of the Society, according to the example of those Benefactors,