HIS PUBLIC CAREER. xxxv 



when the statue, with the following complimentary inscription 

 on the pedestal, was displayed : 



GULIELMO HARVEIO 



Viro monumentis suis immortal! 



Hoc insuper Collegium Medicorum Londinense 



posuit. 

 Qui enim Sanguini motum 



ut et 

 Animalibus ortum dedit, 



Meruit esse 

 Stator Perpetuus. 1 



Harvey, in acknowledgment, it may have been, of the dis- 

 tinguished honour done him by his friends and colleagues, 

 appears about this time to have commenced the erection at 

 his own cost of a handsome addition to the College of 

 Physicians. It was, as Aubrey informs us, " a noble building 

 of Roman architecture (of rustic work, with Corinthian 

 pilasters), comprising a great parlour, a kind of convocation 

 house for the fellows to meet in below, and a library above. 

 On the outside, on the frieze, in letters three inches long, was 

 this inscription : Suasu et cura Fran. Prujeani, Prsesidis, et 

 Edmundi Smith, elect, inchoata et perfecta est hsec fabrica, 

 An. MDCLiu." 2 Nor was Harvey content merely to erect this 

 building ; he, further, furnished the library with books, and 

 the museum with numerous objects of curiosity and a variety 

 of surgical instruments. On the ceremony of this handsome 

 addition to the College of Physicians being opened, which took 

 place on the 2d of February, 1653, a sumptuous entertainment 

 was provided at Harvey's expense, at which he received the pre- 



1 This statue perished with the building, in the great fire of London in 1666, and 

 seems never to have been replaced. The hall of the present College of Physicians 

 is not graced as was the old one in Harvey's time. The only sculptures of Harvey that 

 I know of are busts, in the theatre of the College of Physicians and on his monu- 

 ment in Hempstead church, but of dates posterior to their subject, that at the 

 College of Physicians being apparently after the portrait by Jansen in the library, 

 and, as I am informed, by a sculptor of the name of Seemacher. 



2 Aubrey, 1. c. p. 378. 



