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 that he accompanied Thomas, Earl of Arundel (a name which no scholar, no lover of art can hear unmoved), in the year 1636, during the nine months of his special embassy to Vienna.

Our further concern with Harvey is with his work; his discoveries, with the reasons why we so venerate his memory, why, in making mention of the benefactors of this College, it is my duty impressed on me not only, Sir, by your commands, but by the grateful sense of the past two centuries, to name Harvey first, and separated by a long interval from those whose merit yet most nearly approaches his.

I have said that the work of the previous