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 nothing, except that they cannot now be discovered, and have probably been out of the possession of the College for a very long time. It may be conjectured that they perished in the great fire of London, when, as we know, the College was destroyed; but this is merely a conjecture, and is somewhat weakened by the fact that the Annals of the College, written by Dr Caius, the second President, have been preserved to the present day. "Omnia periere," says Dr Walter Charlton, referring to the conflagration of the College, in his Harveian Oration for the year 1680; but he does not specially mention manuscripts among the valuables that were destroyed.

Thoma Sydenham Opera Omnia. Ed. Greenhill, 1844, p. 362.

Sydenham's Works, translated by Dr R. G. Latham, 1850, II. 83.

Opera, p. 464. Translation, II. 171.

Opera, p. 116.

Opera, p. 341. Translation, II. 65.