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 Also Dr. Richard Hale, who left us at his death in 1728 the sum of £450, which with £50 given in his lifetime, was to be expended in the purchase of books.

Also Dr. Richard Mead (1673–1754), to whom we are indebted for this bust of Harvey.

Nor in this enumeration of our older benefactors is it fitting to omit him whom we to-day especially commemorate. Harvey at his own request added and furnished a Library and Museum to the building that the generosity of Dr. Hamey had provided for the College, most of which unfortunately was destroyed in the Great Fire. In July 1656, at his last attendance at the College within a year of his death, he "put the crowning act to his munificence by giving to the College in perpetuity his patrimonial estate at Burmarsh in Kent, then valued at £56 per annum." In his will also he thus further testifies his affection for the College. "Touching my books and household stuffs, pictures and apparel, of which I have not already disposed, I give to the College of Physicians all my books and papers, and my best Persian long carpet, and my blue imbroyedyed cushion, one pair of brass irons, with fire shovell and tongues of brasse, for the ornament of the meeting room I have erected for that purpose." He further directed Drs. Scarborough and Ent to select from his Library and collections such as "they shall think fit to present to the College, and the rest to be sold, and with the money buy better."

Passing to the benefactors of more recent date it is my pleasing duty to mention:—

Mrs. Bradshaw, who in 1875 bequeathed £1,000 consols to found a Lecture to be delivered annually in memory of her husband, Dr. William Wood Bradshaw, a Member of this College. A similar bequest was made to the Royal College of Surgeons.

Dr Gavin Milroy, a Fellow of this College, who in