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 THE HARVEIAN ORATION. 1872. PRESIDENT and FELLOWS,

This day serves to recall an event which, two hundred and fifteen years ago, must have been the occasion of much sorrow to the Fellows of our College then assembled. On the 26th of June, in 1657, Harvey was carried to his grave, a long train of his friends and colleagues following far beyond the city walls (b, c).

But of Harvey dead it is not my purpose further to speak. Rather let us regard him as living still among us, in the records of his works, in the memory of the benefits which he conferred upou this College, and in the bright example of his character and mind.

On any occasion on which the countrymen of Harvey meet, with the object of carrying out his