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 of him at Oxford, with Dr. George Bathurst, watching the development of the chick, more congenial to his peace loving soul than war and bloodshed. The victories of Cromwell and the Parliamentary armies at Marston Moor, and at Naseby indi- cated the waning fortunes of the King, and after 1646, Harvey, who had attained to 68 years of age ceased to follow the King to whom he seemed to have been greatly attached, and he went to reside with his brother. His interest in science did not cease; the same industry in the study of physiology was characteristic of his later as well as of his earlier years, and in 1651, his work on generation was pub- lished; it was imperfect in many respects, but it was an indication of the character of the great philosopher. His manuscript medical observations had been destroyed in the earlier part of the Civil war by a senseless mob, and he never ceased to deplore the loss he sustained.

Harvey retained his mental faculties till an advanced age and died in 1657, aged 80 years; a year before one who had