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duty on this occasion is to commemorate the Benefactors of our College, and to exhort its "members to study and search out the secrets of Nature by way of experiment." Such were the injunctions of Harvey when he established this annual Oration.

And truly it is becoming, that once a year we should commemorate those who in times past have benefited our College, and especially those who for well-considered purposes have bestowed gifts in perpetuity, striving thus to extend their good will and usefulness beyond the limit of their own life-time.

Therefore let us call to remembrance Linacre, our Founder and first President; and Gilbert,