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16 of our Fellows, Dr. Hamey, whose name deserves to be ever remembered, became however their purchaser, and afterwards gave them to his col- leagues. Harvey himself contributed munificently to the substantial welfare of the College. A few years before his death "the Fellows," we are told "attended at the College when the doors were thrown open, and Harvey, receiving his assembled colleagues in the new muscum, made over to them on the spot the title-deeds and his whole interest in the building," which, says Aubrey, was a noble building of Roman architecture, containing "a great parlour, a kind of convocation room for the Fellows to meet in below, and a library above." This gift preceded that of his patrimonial estatc with which the establishment of this oration is connected. From these particulars, drawn from that excellent work, the "College Roll," from the pen of our esteemed collcague Dr. Munk, it is brought home to us how vastly altered the position of the College now is; and I think I shall stand in accord with the opinion of others when I say that I consider the best kind of benefaction that