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 hundred and forty volumes of his books having been rescued. Sir Theodore Mayerne left his library to the College, including many manuscripts. Henry, Marquess of Dorchester, who was admitted an honorary Fellow of the College in 1658, has been the most munificent donor to the library, for in 1655 he presented £100 to augment it, and subsequently bequeathed a collection of books of the value of £4,000, in sympathy with the College in the loss of its library by the fire, and to show his respect for the profession. Dr. Richard Hale gave in his lifetime £50, and at his death in 1728 left the sum of £450, to be expended in the purchase of books. Dr. Matthew Baillie, to whom I shall again refer later on, gave during his lifetime his private collection of morbid specimens, now in the museum; and at his death in 1823 bequeathed all his medical books and the copper-plates of his work on "Morbid Anatomy." Coming to more recent times, Dr. Arthur Farre presented about one thousand volumes, some of which were very interesting or curious. Numerous individual contributions of much value and interest have been made to the library from time to time, by different Fellows, including our learned Harveian Librarian and Treasurer, as well as by others who have no immediate personal connection with the College. It would be beyond my province to mention these donations separately on the present occasion, but I