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MEMORIAL TO HARVEY. 
measures concerning it without an express order from the 
magistrate. The -impunity of the village c/iamars, who are 
the chief culprits, is largely increased by their usefulness to 
the village communities in respect of various functions 
which they alone can discharge. For the purpose of check¬ 
ing so mischievous a crime it has been suggested that the 
offence should be directly brought under the penal code, that 
the sale of poisons should be carefully restricted and re¬ 
gistered, that the burial of carcasses and the destruction of 
hides should be rigidly enforced, that the sale of hides should 
always be registered, and heavy penalties exacted for every 
breach of these rules.— Allen's Indian Mail. 
MEMORIAL TO HARVEY. 
One of England’s greatest scientific celebrities is about to 
be raised from the ungrateful forgetfulness to which he has 
been hitherto consigned. Harvey, who, by the discovery of 
the circulation of the blood, raised physiology from mere 
guesswork to comparative certainty, is at length to be 
honoured by the erection of a national memorial. The 
townsmen of his native place, Folkestone, have resolved not 
to allow the tercentenary of his birth to pass unnoticed, and 
it has been decided that a bronze statue, if possible of a very 
superior class, shall be erected to his memory. A committee 
is in process of formation in London to assist the Folkestone 
committee, and public scientific bodies and individuals are 
being asked for aid and co-operation. The Archbishop of 
Canterbury, Lord Granville, the Presidents of the Royal 
Colleges of Physicians and Surgeons, Sir Thomas Watson, 
Sir Henry Holland, Sir William Fergusson, Sir William 
Gull, Sir James Paget, Baron M. de Rothschild, M.P., Lord 
Robert Montagu, M.P., Dr. Owen Rees, Dr. Quain, Dr. 
Bence Jones, Mr. F. C. Skey, C.B., Mr. John Simon, Mr. 
Ernest Hart, and others, have already promised support; and 
the sum of £300 has been at once subscribed. As soon as 
sufficient funds are promised to assure the committee of 
success, His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales will be 
asked to preside at a public meeting, to be convened at the 
hall of the Royal College of Physicians of London, which has 
been kindly offered for the purpose by the President and 
Fellows. We gather from the report of a public meeting 
held at Folkestone, at which the Mayor presided, that Mr. 
