the same President of the College and aforesaid Fellowship and their successors and whatever others of their assigns, professors or experts, to dissect and to divide the same bodies or otherwise according to their will and judgment, with that reverence which ought to be granted to human flesh, for the increment of knowledge of medicine and experiment of the same, and for the health of our liegemen without the contradiction of anyone. And this without rendering or paying any one any sum of money or any sums of money for the same. Provided always that when from time to time an anatomy of this sort has been undertaken and completed that the aforesaid bodies be given funeral and burial at the expense of the President and his successors.... Westminster, 24 February, in the seventh year of our reign’ [43]Caius was not only a confirmed Galenist, but with the passing years ever a more conservative and literal Galenist, and his anatomical lectures to the surgeons were described by Bullein in his _Little Dialogue_ of 1579 as ‘reveiling ... the hidden jewels and precious treasures of Cl. Galenus’. It seems likely that, whatever anatomical lectures were given in the College of Physicians, they must, at least for a time, have been of like character. In the _Annals_ of the college as written by Caius we find that as late as the year 1559 a certain Joannes Geynes was subject to disciplinary action because of his assertion that Galen had been guilty of error. He was required to state that ‘I Joannes Geynes confess that Galen did not err in those things for which I criticized him’, _Annales a Collegio Condito_, pp. 53-54, in _The Works of John Caius_, ed. Venn, Cambridge, 1912. Such conservatism carried over to the study of anatomy would certainly have been detrimental to any advancement of knowledge. [44]_Compendiosa totius Anatomie delineatio, aere exarata per Thomam Geminum._ [45]_Selected Writings of Sir D’Arcy Power_, Oxford, 1931, p. 115. [46]H. M. Sinclair and A. H. T. Robb-Smith, _A Short History of Anatomical Teaching in Oxford_, Oxford, 1950, p. 10. [47]Ibid., p. 11. [48]Ibid. [49]Caius, loc. cit., p. 104.