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must have been at Holyrood and present at the banquet in Edinburgh 

 Castle given by the Earl of Mar on June 17, 1633, in honor of the king. 

 Charles remained two months in Scotland, from the middle of May to 

 the middle of July, and we have a curious piece of incidental evidence 

 that Harvey was with him all the time. 



In his book on development, Harvey has left on record the appear- 

 ance of the Bass rock " during the months of May and June " in a 

 description he wrote of that island, which he visited for the purpose of 

 studying the embryo in the eggs of the solan goose. His description 

 of the myriads of these birds on the rock would be quite true to-day. 



Harvey was at least once actually under fire in a battle of the civil 

 war, namely, at the battle of Edgehill, where he had charge of the 

 royal children, afterwards Charles II. and James II. Aubrey tells us 

 that " a shot from a great gun " made them seek better shelter ; we are 

 also informed that Harvey read Fabricius on generation during the 

 battle. 



Harvey traveled a good deal on the continent of Europe; from 1631 

 to 1633 in Spain with the Duke of Lennox; while in 1636, in company 

 with the Earl of Arundel, who was sent on a diplomatic mission to 

 Vienna, he made an extensive tour which included Eome. They visited 

 The Hague, Leyden, Cologne, Nuremberg, Lintz on the Danube, Baden, 

 Eatisbon, Treviso and Venice. The records are still extant of the visit 

 of the party to the English college at Eome; Lord Arundel was a 

 Eoman Catholic. To Dr. Weir Mitchell, F.R.S., of Philadelphia, we 

 owe only this very year the publication of a number of previously 

 unpublished letters written by Harvey on this journey to the Lords 

 Feilding and Dorchester. They cast very interesting sidelights on 

 men and manners; but we must not be tempted to linger over them. 



At Florence Harvey and the Earl's party were entertained by that 

 celebrated patron of learning, Ferdinand II., Grand Duke of Tuscany. 

 At Nuremberg on this tour it seems almost certain that Harvey's por- 

 trait was painted by William van Bemmel. It is the portrait in which 

 the heart and arteries are displayed in a dissection on the right of the 

 figure. He was fifty-eight years old at this date. 



A few of Harvey's more notable patients were: King James I., the 

 Lord Chancellor Bacon, the Earl of Arundel, Prince Maurice, brother 

 of Prince Eupert, a son of the Viscount Montgomery, Sir William and 

 Lady Sandys and Sir Adrian Scrope. 



Of his friends in England we know the following were of the num- 

 ber: the aged philosopher Hobbes, of Malmesbury; the Hon. Eobert 

 Boyle; Eobert Hooke, F.E.S., the natural philosopher; Dr. Argent, 

 Sir George Ent, Aubrey the antiquary, and Selden the lawyer. 



Of three of his medical pupils — Scarborough, Willis and Highmore 



