_Dr. John Caius_, _Kaye_, or _Key_, of Gonville-hall, Cambridge, succeeded _Linacre_ in the Presidency; like him he had travelled in Italy for his improvement in the study of Medicine, and having resided in Padua and Bologna, where he took his Doctor’s degree, and was for some years Greek lecturer, he pursued his travels through Germany and France. After his return to England, he was called to Court as Physician to king _Edward_ the 6th; in 1547 he was made a Fellow of the College of Physicians, the rights and privileges of which he most strenuously asserted and augmented. In 1557 and 1558 he obtained from queen _Mary_, with whom he was a favourite, a licence to advance Gonville-hall into a College, under the name of _Gonville & Caius College_, on the condition of enlarging the institution at his own expense. Of this college he accepted the mastership in 1569, and in order that he might devote his undivided attention to his favourite project, he resigned the Presidency of the College of Physicians in 1565, and completed his new buildings at Cambridge in 1570, at an expense which was very considerable in those days. The mansion of learning, thus raised by his liberality, became the retreat of his old age, and having resigned the mastership, with a disinterestedness equalled only by his munificence, he continued to reside as a Fellow Commoner until the period of his death, which happened in 1573, in the sixty-third year of his age. The laconic epitaph on his monument in Caius College Chapel, FUI CAIUS, is well known. For an account of his many learned works _see Aikin’s Biog. Memoirs of Medicine: 2 Aikin’s General Biog._ and _Goodall’s Proceedings of the College_. _Dr. William Harvey_, of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, to whom we are indebted for the important discovery of the circulation of the blood, was another ornament and benefactor of the College. Like his predecessors he visited France, Germany, and Italy, in order to perfect himself in the science of Medicine; at Padua he studied under the most celebrated Professors of that University, then at the height of its reputation, and in the anatomical school of _Fabricius_ caught the first idea of his great discovery, by attributing their true office to the valves of the veins, exhibited, but not explained, by his master. From this circumstance, the envious of his own time and some foreigners to this day, have attempted to deprive our countryman of the honor of his invention[69]. In 1602 _Harvey_ took his Doctor’s degree at Padua, shortly after which he graduated at Cambridge; in 1616 or 1619 he published his discovery in his Lectures before the College, and like many others suffered in his practice from the reputation of his learning, for men would not then believe that the labours of the closet and dissecting-room were the truest roads to professional skill.