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 SIR WILLIAM JENNER,

HONOURED PRESIDENT OF THIS LEARNED COLLEGE,

BEFORE entering on the subject which now brings us here, I must ask you to accept my thanks for the distinction you have conferred on me, in selecting me for the office I have the honour to fill to-day, an honour, allow me to add, which carries with it a special gratification to myself, inasmuch as among the many distinctions conferred by this College on my grandfather, the late Dr. Henry Revell Reynolds, there was not one he prized more highly than that of having delivered, as he did, before the President and Fellows of this College, one hundred and eight years ago,* the

HARVEIAN ORATION.

MR. PRESIDENT, FELLOWS OF THIS COLLEGE, AND GENTLEMEN,

SIR THOMAS BROWNE has said, in one of his sadder moods, "Our fathers find their graves in our short memories, and sadly tell us how we may be buried in our survivors. The greater part must be content to be as though they had not been,-to be found in the register of God, not in the memory of man."

Munk, vol. ii., p. 300.
 * Roll of the Royal College of Physicians of London. Edited by Dr.