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latione durante fabricâ corporeâ, and all violent destructions or impediments abstracted.'

It is, perhaps, needless to dwell further upon Warner's claims—certainly I do not propose to trouble you with reading to you any more of his speculations and conclusions. I have, however, had a copy made of folio pages 140, 141, 142, 194, and 195, and, though the gift may not seem a very valuable one, it will enable any fellow of Harvey's College to satisfy himself abundantly, and within our own walls, as to the real merits of the claimant before us, if the College will allow it to find a place in their library. In the words of Harvey's favourite poet,

In all seriousness it is something to know what a contemporary of Harvey, and he a mathematician of some eminence, could write only some ten years before the actual demonstration of the circulation of the blood was given to the world.

Let me say, however, that I do not think it by any means impossible that Harvey may have read this treatise of Warner's, hard