Sir Samuel Wilks (President of this College),
Fellows and Gentlemen,—
The honourable task which is Imposed upon me today carries with it, year by year, a heavier burden and an Increased responsibility.
I suppose that not fewer than one hundred and eighty Harveian Orators have taken their places in this venerable College to carry out the project of that great man whose character and work we so appropriately commemorate on this Festival of "the beloved Physician,"
When we reflect that the Orators have In nearly every instance come fresh to the task, have brought all their learning and literary skill to bear upon it, have, not seldom, in the past, clothed it In the purest Latin or the most classical English, and have no less enriched both the Science and Art of Medicine by many of these efforts, the latest of that band may
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