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 of travelling, and is said to have travelled to Italy at the advanced age of seventy-one, but this is doubtful. In 1651, however, when he was seventythree years old, his work on "Generation" was published, as the result of the solicitations and persuasion of his friend. The account which Ent gives of his interview with Harvey, when he obtained his consent to publish the work, is highly dramatic, interesting, and pathetic. Although long afflicted with gout, Harvey appears to have maintained his mental activity and the integrity of his intellectual faculties to a late period of his life, if not to the last. He died in his eightieth year, in June 1657, and was buried with great honour in his brother Eliab's vault, in the parish church of Hempstead, in Essex. On October 18th, 1883, by the piety of this College, his remains were removed from the dilapidated vault, and with befitting solemnity were re-interred in the marble sarcophagus in the Harvey Chapel attached to the same church, eight Fellows bearing his body, "lapped in lead," to his final resting-place.

In the deed by which Harvey conveyed to the College his estate, he laid down what may be regarded as three distinct and definite instructions or injunctions with respect to the subject-matter of