his patients were the losers. What Harvey and

every honest man cares for, is not popular applause, but the confidence and esteem of his comrades; and this he deserved and received. It was as Lecturer at this College that he propounded his discoveries; it was here that he found his disciples and his friends; here he was urged to take the Presidential chair; and here his statue was erected, five years before his death, with the inscription, “ Viro monument is suis immortali .” It would have been a poor compliment to his elaborate demonstrations, and unworthy of a liberal profession, if so startling a revolution as Harvey proposed had been accepted without inquiry. It was considered, it was discussed, and, without haste hut without timidity, it was at last accepted — the very way in which Darwin’s theory was received and criticised, and adopted by Lyell and by Hooker, Let then no scientific