22 THE GROWTH OF TRUTH 



of the picture of ' The Anatomy Lecture by Bannister ', 

 which is in the Hunterian collection, Glasgow, and 

 a photograph of which Dr. Payne has recently put in 

 our library, we can bring to mind this memorable 

 occasion. We see the 'Anatomy', one of the six an- 

 nually handed over to the College, on the table, the 

 prosector standing by the skeleton near at hand, and 

 very probably on the wall the very Tabulae of dissection 

 of the arteries, veins, and nerves that hang above us 

 to-day. But the centre of attention is the lecturer 

 a small dark man, wand in hand, with black piercing 

 eyes, a quick vivacious manner, and with an ease and 

 grace in demonstrating, which bespeaks the mastery of 

 a subject studied for twenty years with a devotion that 

 we can describe as Hunterian. A Fellow of nine years' 

 standing, there was still the salt of youth in William 

 Harvey when, not as we may suppose, without some 

 trepidation, he faced his auditors on this second day 

 a not uncritical audience, including many men well 

 versed in the knowledge of the time and many who had 

 heard all the best lecturers of Europe. 



The President, Henry Atkins, after whose name in 

 our Register stands the mysterious word ' Corb ', had 

 already had his full share of official lectures, less 

 burdensome three hundred years ago than now. Let 

 us hope the lecture of the previous day had whetted 

 his somewhat jaded appetite. The Censors of the year 

 formed an interesting group : John Argent, a Cambridge 

 man, a ' great prop of the college ', and often President, 

 of whom but little seems known ; Richard Palmer, also of 

 Cambridge, and remembered now only for his connexion 

 with Prince Henry's typhoid fever, as Dr. Norman 

 Moore has told us; Mathew Gwinne of Oxford, first 

 Professor of Physic at Gresham College and a play- 



