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Rh once entertained of it, the record of the earlier experiments in connection with it has not the less interest. On November 11th, 1666, Pepys narrates: —

On November 16th the result of the experiment is given :—

What would Mr. John Bright or Archbishops Tait and Thomson say to Mr. Pepys' thoughtless witticism, which is eminently Palmer- stonian in its flavour ? The 'Philosophical Transactions,' in giving the details of the "experiment," slate that though "hitherto look'd upon to be of an almost (insurmountable difficulty, it hath been of late very successfully perform'd, not onely at Oxford by the directions of that expert anatomist, Dr. Lower, but also in London, by order of the R. Society, at their publick meeting in Gresham Colledge."

The Society soon grew bolder, for the following year found them extending the experiment of transfusion from dogs to mankind. Again let Mr. Pepys be the exponent. On November 21st, 1667, he went —

On November 30th we learn the result, so far, at least as concerns the man "that is a little frantic"; but how about the sheep? Pepys says —

"I was pleased to see the person who had his blood taken out. He speaks well, and did this day give the Society a relation thereof in Latin,