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with an earnest appeal to them to cherisli that mutual concord and 

 amity amongst themselves, which recent occurrences, we may sup- 

 pose, had tended to weaken. In the other pages of the Register for 

 the period between April 1645 and the Midsummer of 1646, I find 

 the name of Charles Scarborough, the protege of Harvey, and 

 afterwards frequently an office-bearer in this College ; but there is 

 little or nothing of special interest to us in the rest of the record, 

 beyond the fact that Harvey appears to have attended the College 

 meetings and so to have discharged his duties, amongst which the 

 providing for the contingency of a siege and famine was one. Mr. 

 Pettigrew ('Medical Portrait Gallery,^ 1840) has put on record the 

 fact that Harvey's signature is to be found in the Liber Com- 

 putorum of Merton. The College Register, however, is not so 

 enriched, as I can state upon the authority of Mr. E. Maunde 

 Thompson, who compared the pages relating to Harvey's warden- 

 ship with the autograph MS. in the British Museum, when I took 

 the Register up to London for that purpose \ 



otherwise he would, no doubt, have kept his word, and Merton College would have 

 gained what the College of Physicians, or some others of his legatees, would have 

 lost. 



^ Mr. E. M. Thompson has made another search for Harvey's missing MS. ' De 

 Anatomia Uni versS.,' which Dr. Lawrence mentions at p. xxxi of his • Harveii Vita * 

 (ed. 1766), and which Dr. Willis tells us at p. vii of his Preface (ed. Willis) had then 

 (1847) been twice looked for in vain. Mr. Thompson's search has also been equally 

 fruitless; he writes to me thus, under date June 3, 1873: — 'Harvey's "Anatomy" 

 •was once upon a time in the British Museum. In the first volume of the old MS. 

 Catalogue of the Sloane MSS. (now marked Sloane MS. 3972 A), there is this entry 

 on p. 57 :— 



«'C. ^ff^. — Praelectiones anatomicae universales per me, Gulielmum Harveum me- 

 dicum Londinensem Anatom. et Chirurg. Professor. Anno Dom. 16 16, aetatis 37, 

 praelect. April i, 16 17." 



To which is added, " This is the author's foundation and first Lecture of the circula- 

 tion in his own handwriting," and opposite to it is this note by Sir F. Madden, "In 

 the place of 230 (which seems missing) Ayscough substituted the bracketed no. (6)." 

 So you will see from this that the MS. was missing in Ayscough's time. I have ran- 

 sacked our MSS. without finding any clue ; so I think you may make up your mind 

 that it was borrowed, and has gone the way of borrowed books in general. — E. Maunde 

 Thompson.' Wood says (' Fasti Oxonienses,* ii. 6) of Harvey, ' But more in MSS. 

 hath he left behind him, the titles of which you may see in the Epist. Dedicat. before 

 a Historical Account of the Colleges Proceedings against Empyricks' (1684, London, 

 Ch. Goodall). Moved by this authority, though Goodall only says that Harvey 

 designed these treatises, I looked over a large number of medical MSS., assisted 

 herein by Mr. Walter de Gray Birch, in the Sloane Collection of the British Museum, 

 without the desired result. Subsequently I found that Harvey himself in 1650 (p. 



