=William Gilbert=, who was president of the College in 1600, was the first really scientific Fellow. He was physician to Elizabeth and James I., and his great work on magnetism, “De Magnete Magneticisque Corporibus et de Magno Magnete Telluræ, Physiologia Nova,” commanded the admiration of Bacon and Galileo, and of many succeeding generations of scientists. It is a work worthy of being placed alongside of Harvey’s work on the Circulation, and the College of Physicians is honoured to have reckoned him among its presidents. The importance of Gilbert’s investigations to a great naval Power seems to have been recognised by Queen Elizabeth, who, to her great honour, assisted him with a pension. He died in 1603, aged sixty-three, and was buried at Colchester. He was the contemporary of Shakespeare and Bacon, and was one of those who helped to make the Elizabethan era the wonder of all subsequent generations. The post-mortem examination made on the body of James I. is an interesting record of the state of pathology in 1625. It is recorded “that the head was found so full of brains that they could not keep them from spilling--a great mark of his infinite judgment; but his blood was wonderfully tainted with melancholy, and the corruption thereof was the supposed cause of his death.” I have now to mention the man who, above all others, has tended by his work to make medicine a science, and who probably did much by his lectures at the College to disseminate a knowledge of anatomy and physiology. Harvey was the first English physiologist, and lectured for forty-one years at the Royal College of Physicians on anatomy and surgery. =William Harvey= (1578-1657) went to Padua in 1598, and studied under Fabricius, Minadous, and Casserius, and took his M.D. in 1602. He came to London in 1604, became F.R.C.P. in 1607, and succeeded Dr. Wilkinson at St. Bartholomew’s in 1609. He was Lumleian lecturer in 1615. He expounded, as is supposed, the doctrine of the circulation in 1616, and finally published his views in 1628. He was physician to James I. in 1618 (?). In 1638 he was appointed physician in ordinary to Charles I., and there is a curious order in the letter-book of the Lord Steward’s office for the settling a “diett of three dishes of meat and meale with all incidents thereunto belonging upon the said Dr. Harvey,” which daily “diett” was subsequently commuted for £200 a year. Harvey followed the fortunes of the King, and was at the Battle of Edgehill in 1642. Meanwhile his house in London was plundered of goods and anatomical records. He became warden of Merton College, Oxford, in 1645, from which post he was ousted by the Parliament in 1646. By the solicitation of Sir George Ent he was induced to publish his work on Generation in 1651. He gave a new library and museum to the College of Physicians in 1653, whereupon the Fellows placed his statue in their hall, and, in his absence, elected him president in 1654, which honour,