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 by his side, who smoothed his sometimes rugged path, who chronicled in her memory each word and deed of his, and who with exquisite grace has revealed enough of him to make us understand how much there was in his character to love as well as to admire.

The name of Harvey suggests that of Bell as of the one man who stands next to him; I had almost said, and do not care to unsay it, who stands side by side with him by virtue of his deep insight into the structure of our frame and of the laws by which its functions are governed. I trust to your indulgence. Sir, to pardon me this digression.

Of Harvey’s inner life we have no record, and so all we know is that he taught the doctrine of the Circulation of the Blood as early as the year 1615, when he held that office of Lumleian Lecturer, to which the too indulgent judgment of your predecessor, three years ago, Sir, promoted me. It was not, however, until the year 1628, when Harvey was fifty years old, that he gave to the world the full fruit of his labours, in his ‘Exercitatio de Motu