THE
HARVEIAN ORATION
1903
Mr. President, Fellows of the College and Gentlemen,—In proceeding to discharge the duty which you, Sir, have laid upon me, and for which honour I desire to express my grateful appreciation, my course is in great measure laid down for me by the injunctions of the illustrious Fellow of this College whom we meet to-day especially to commemorate. In the deed by which he conveyed to the College in 1656, a year before his death, his estate at Burmarsh in Kent, Harvey provided that:—
"There shall be once every year a general Feast for all the Fellows; and on the day when such Feast shall be kept some one person of the said College shall be from time to time appointed, who shall make
