as for incontinency.” Five years later, for this latter failing, this worthy “was carted through London in a ridiculous attire.” In 1559, John Geynes, M.D., F.R.C.P., was cited before the College for impugning the infallibility of Galen. On his acknowledgment of error and humble recantation he was received into the College. In 1556 the College objected to the admission by the University of Oxford of one David Laughton, an illiterate coppersmith. The College laid before Cardinal Pole and the visitors the following instance of his illiteracy: “Cujus infantia, cum suggessit ut quomodo _corpus_ declinaretur, exigeremus, respondit _hic_, _hæc_, et _hoc corpus_ accusativo _corporem_,” adding “egregius certe ex universitate medicus cui humana vita committeretur.” This objection was successful. Clearly formal President Caius was not the man to countenance loose morals, heterodoxy, or bad grammar. We must not dismiss Caius without alluding to the Dr. Caius of Shakspeare, as drawn in the “Merry Wives of Windsor.” Shakspeare’s Caius is described as a French physician, and throughout the play he is made to speak broken English. Caius died in 1573, when the poet was ten years old, and it is very probable that Shakspeare borrowed the name without thinking of the man. On the other hand, it must be remembered that Caius probably spoke Latin like a Frenchman and that he lost favour at the court of Elizabeth, and it is possible that Shakspeare may have heard him held up to ridicule. But to proceed with the history of the College and its relations to medical education. In 1581, Dr. Caldwell and Lord Lumley founded the _Lumleian Lectures on Anatomy and Surgery_, and the importance of this foundation will be appreciated when it is stated that Harvey was Lumleian lecturer from 1615 to 1656, and that it was in these lectures that the great fact of the circulation was first demonstrated. In 1587, we find the College renting a garden for forty marks a year, and engaging John Gerard, the author of the well-known “Herbal,” to keep it stocked for them with rare plants. Gerard himself had a garden in Holborn, where among other things he propagated the potato.