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^antGv}mv,i}, June 9, 1868. 



A meeting of this Society, was held on Tuesday, in the 

 lecture-room of the Museum, Guildhall-street, Colonel 

 Horsley in the chair. A very interesting lecture was de- 

 livered on the " Red Corpuscles of the Blood of Vertebrates," 

 by George Gulliver, Esq., F.R.S., late Professor of Anatomy 

 to the College of Surgeons and Surgeon in the Blues. 

 The lecture was profusely illustrated by a magnificent set 

 of coloured Diagrams, representing the corpuscles magnified 

 8000 diameters, and all drawn to one and the same scale, from 

 the most remarkable examples of those corpuscles through- 

 out the vertebrate sub-kingdom. 



The President having introduced the lecturer in a few 

 appropriate remarks, 



Mr. Gulliver rose and said, — jf^o wonder that we 

 should think of the blood in this county, where the illus- 

 trious discoverer of the circulation of that fluid was born ; 

 and in this city, where he received his scholastic education. 

 His discovery was published in 1619, and he died in 1657. 



But we are now to treat of a very important part of the 

 blood which was unknown to Harvey. Marcellus Mal- 

 pighi, an eminent Italian anatomist, whose name is 

 steryotypcd, as it were, into the records of zootomy and 

 phytotomy, discovered the red corpuscles of the blood in 

 1673, sixteen years after Harvey's death, and William 

 Molyneux first saw them circulating within their vessels in the 



