HARVEY] 
BRITISH ORNITHOLOGY 
277 
Hakvey (Joshua Reuben), ca. 1845 
This writer is described as President of the Medical and 
late President of the Cnvierian Societies of Cork, and also 
Physician to the South Charitable Infirmary and to the 
Lying-in Hospital, Cork. He held the degrees of M.D. and 
B.A., and was M.R.C.S.L. 
The volume contains an annotated list of birds of the 
district of some 12 pp. in extent. 
1845. [With others.] Contributions | towards a | Fauna and Flora | of 
the | County of Cork, | Head at the meeting of the | British 
Association Held at Cork | in the year 1843. | The Vertebra ta by 
Dr. Harvey. | The Mollusca, Crustacea and Echinodermata | by 
J. D. Humphrey. | The Flora by Dr. Power. | (Published by the 
Cuvierian Society of Cork.) London : | John Van Voorst, 1 
Paternoster How, | Bookseller to the Zoological Society. | Cork : 
| George Purcell & Co., 20 Patrick Street. | 1845. 
Collation — 1 vol. 8vo, pp. 6 un. +pp. iv + pp. 24 (Vertebrata). 
Aves at pp. 4-16. 
1846. Occurrence of the White Stork near Fermoy, and note of the Herring 
Gull breeding in confinement. (Zoologist, pp. 1394-5.) 
Hakvey (William), 1578-1657 
The life of William Harvey, celebrated as the discoverer 
of the circulation of the blood, has been written at length 
so many times and is so little relevant to our subject that we 
do not propose to mention more than the barest facts relating 
to him. He was born at Folkestone, April 1, 1578, in a house 
which still belongs to Cains College, Cambridge, to which 
Harvey bequeathed it. He was educated first at the King’s 
School, Canterbury, from whence he proceeded to Cambridge. 
He took his M.I). degree at Padua in 1602 and at Cambridge 
later in the same year, and settled in London, becoming 
physician at St. Bartholomew’s in 1609. His Exercitationes 
. . . de Motu Cordis appeared in 1630, but this and his 
other medical works do not concern us here. The only one 
relating to our subject is the undernoted, which, in addition 
to the account of the Bass Rock (penned during a journey 
to Scotland made with the King in May 1633), contains a 
