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sciences and their various and still novel instruments and methods. The same spirit which caused him repeatedly to say (as, for example, to Sir George Ent, p. 163; to Horstius, p. 630), 'haec cum mira, ut solet, promptitudine effundens,' that he doubted not that much now hidden in darkness would be brought to light by the inde- fatigable industry of the coming age; the same spirit which dictated the provision in his will bidding 'his lo. friend Mr. Doctor Ent' sell certain of his 'books, papers, or rare collections/ and, ' with the money buy better,' would have caused him, could he have been amongst us, to point out, as a matter for congratulation, in how many di- rections his discoveries had been extended and added to, and how well replaced had been the many works the loss of which had been so ' crucifying' to him. There was not in Harvey's mind that defect in the way of a deficiency of interest in theological questions which constitutes in the minds of some eminent scientific, and some eminent literary, men such a lamentable void. He has, on the contrary,