Page:The Harveian oration - delivered at the Royal College of Physicians, October 18th, 1899 (IA b24975941).pdf/8

4 It is my privilege to record that during the past year our Fellows have not been unmindful of this duty. Sir Hermann Weber, the munificent founder of the Parkes Prize, has presented one hundred guineas to the College Endowment Fund. Dr. Philip Frank has given a similar sum, and has shown that, although he has cast aside the heavy burden of practice, his interest in that profession, the dignity of which he has so well upheld in a foreign country, is unabated. By the will of my lamented and respected colleague, Dr. C. J. Hare, the College has received five hundred pounds.

Harvey not only built for us a library and museum and gave us an estate, but by his will left us books and certain articles of furniture. These minor benefactions the "Persia long carpet," the " embroyed eyed cushion," and the "andirons"-are very touching. They show how he loved the College, and how he regarded it as the family mansion of the Fellows, where they could meet in comfort on terms of fraternal amity. During the past year our home has been beautified by two valuable additions to our Portrait Gallery. We have received from the Quain family a striking likeness of Sir Richard Quain by the late Sir John Millais, P.R.A., and a portrait by G. F. Watts of the late Sir William Roberts has been given to us by his representatives. Our library has been enriched by the thoughtfulness and generosity of