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THE HARVEIAN ORATION, 1903
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1886 bequeathed a sum of £2,000 to establish a yearly Lectureship in "State Medicine and Public Hygiene."

Mrs. FitzPatrick, who in 1901 gave to the College under the advice of Dr. Norman Moore a sum of £2,000 to found a Lectureship in "The History of Medicine," in memory of her husband, Dr. Thomas FitzPatrick, a learned Member of the College.

Also the following donors of sums for the purpose of providing commemorative prizes or medals to be awarded by the President and Council of the College.

Dr. Swiney, 1844, jointly with the Society of Arts, a triennial prize of a silver cup value £100 for the best work on Jurisprudence.

Dr. Baly, 1866, £400 to provide a gold medal every alternate year for distinction in Physiology, "In Memoriam Gulielmi Baly, M.D.," and not restricted to British subjects.

A sum of over £400 subscribed in memory of Dr. Walter Moxon in 1886, the interest of which provides every third year a gold medal, value £30, for excellence in observation and research in Clinical Medicine, and is not confined to Fellows or Members of the College.

In 1895 Sir Hermann Weber generously presented to the College £3,000 to found a Prize to be called the "Weber Parkes prize," in memory of the late Dr. Edmund Parkes, to be awarded for the best essay on "The Pathology, Prevention or Treatment of Tuberculosis."

And in 1896, due to the suggestion of our Fellow, Dr. Theodore Williams, a sum of £1,000 was presented to the College by Captain Edward Wilmot Williams with the object of perpetuating the memory of the late Dr. Francis Bisset Hawkins, a former distinguished Fellow of the College. A gold medal is triennially