Page:The Harveian oration - delivered at the Royal College of Physicians, London, June 29th, 1867 (IA b22315263).pdf/12

 lete, and the annual feast has been relinquished. We may presume to say, that this act of self-denial has not been altogether the fruit of our modern virtues of economy and temperance; we must confess rather that it has resulted from the difficult problem of how to regale the two hundred and fifty Fellows of the present day by means of funds provided for the then existing twenty. Let us, notwithstanding these inevitable changes, hope that the mutual incitement to study and goodwill may be observed for ages yet to come.

Although, as we have stated, the time has almost passed away for pecuniary aids to flow in other than strictly charitable channels, and, although medical science needs no longer liberal donations to attract or to support its votaries, yet it is my pleasing duty, on this occasion, to record an exception, and I have to acknowledge a fresh instance of the very sort of liberality which Harvey loved to encourage. We owe grateful thanks to Dr. Dyster of Tenby for presenting to the college 400l., to be devoted to the presentation of a medal for the best essay on physiology-the foundation