CROONIAN LECTURES AND LECTURERS.-Dr. Croone, a fellow of the College, left behind him at his death in 1684, a plan for two lectureships, which he had designed to found; one of these to be read yearly before the College of Physicians, with a sermon, to be preached at the church of St. Mary-le-Bow; the other on the nature and laws of muscular motion, to be delivered annually before the Royal Society. But as his will contained no provision whatever for the endowment of these lectures, his widow (a daughter of alderman Lorimer, of the city of London, who subsequently married Sir Edwin Sadlier, bart.), carried out his intention by devising in her will, dated 21st September, 1706, the King's Head tavern, in Lambeth-hill, Little Knightrider-street, to her husband for his life, and after his decease to her executors in trust, to settle four parts out of five thereof upon the College of Physicians, to found the annual lecture, now called the Croonian lecture; and the fifth part upon the Royal Society. To obviate some difficulties in carrying out the intention of the testatrix, the premises by indentures of lease and release, dated 29th and 30th April, 1729, were, in pursuance of a decree of the Court of Chancery conveyed to the College of Physicians in trust to perform lady Sadlier's will. The property was let by the College in 1789, on a building lease of ninety-nine years. The following is a list of the Croonian lec turers: 1749-1755. Thomas Lawrence, M.D. Mark Akenside, M.D. 1758-1759. Thomas Lawrence, M.D. 1760. William Heberden, M.D. 1763. Richard Brocklesby, M.D. 1770. Thomas Healde, M.D. 1774-1775. Donald Monro, M.D.1 1781. Francis Milman, M.D.2 1784. Thomas Healde, M.D. 1788-89-90. Francis Riollay, M.D. 1791. James Robertson Barclay, M.D. 1795. John Latham, M.D. 1 1774. Prælectiones Medicæ ex Croonii instituto 1774-5. 8vo. Lond. 1776. 21781. An Inquiry into the Source from whence the Symptoms of the Scurvy and of Putrid Fevers arise. 8vo. Lond. 1782. HARVEIAN ORATIONS AND ORATORS. Harvey, by indenture dated 21st June, 1656, conveyed his patrimonial estate of Burmarsh to the College of Physicians, upon various trusts, among which is the following:-"To maintain friendship there shall be at every meeting once a month a small collation, as the President shall think fit, for the enter tainment of such as come; and 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 by the President and two eldest Censors and two eldest Elects for the time being of the said College (so that the person so to be appointed be not in that behalf appointed two years together), who shall make an oration in Latin publicly, in 1 1819. On the Nature and Uses of the Nervous System: in Treatise of Nervous Diseases. 2 1827. On the Colon. 2 vols. 8vo. Lond. 1820. 3 1831. On the Medical Treatment of Insanity. 8vo. Lond. 1832. 1832. "General Pathology." 5 1833. The Croonian Lectures delivered in 1833 on Cholera. 8vo. Lond. 1833. 1853. Medical Testimony and Evidence in Cases of Lunacy. 12mo. Lond. 1854. the said College, wherein shall be a commemoration of all the benefactors of the said College by name, and what in particular they have had done for the benefit of the said College, with an exhortation to others to imitate those benefactors, and to contribute their endeavours for the advancement of the society, according to the example of those benefactors. And with an exhortation to the fellows and members of the said College to search and study out the secrets of nature by way of experiment; and also for the honour of the profession to continue in mutual love and affection among themselves, without which neither the dignity of the College can be preserved, nor yet particular men receive that benefit by their admission into the College which they might expect, ever remembering that concordiâ res parvæ crescunt, discordiâ magnæ dilabuntur."" To the orator was to be paid the sum of five pounds; and Hamey, in the deed of settlement of his estate of Ashlins, dated 13th May, 1672, awards to him an additional five pounds, directing "that the yearly sum of five pounds be paid unto such fellow as shall be chosen orator in the said College, in manner as appointed by Dr. Harvey.” (Goodall's MS. On College Affairs, p. 75.) The following is, I believe, a correct list of the Harveian orators. The orations of those to whom an asterisk is prefixed, have been printed: 1763. Charlton Wollaston, M.D. *1764. William Cadogan, M.D. *1765. Thomas Healde, M.D. *1766. Wilkinson Blanshard, M.D. *1768. Richard Warren, M.D. *1769. Swithin Adee, M.D. *1770. Anthony Relhan, M.D. *1771. John Green, M.D. 1772. John Lewis Petit, M.D. 1773. John Turton, M.D. *1774. Richard Jebb, M.D. *1775. Donald Monro, M.D. 1776. Henry Revell Reynolds, M.D. 1777. Richard Wright, M.D. 1781. Richard Budd, M.D. 1782. Francis Milman, M.D. 1783. Isaac Pennington, M.D. 1784. John Parsons, M.D. 1785. James Hervey, M.D. 1786. David Pitcairn, M.D. 1787. Francis Riollay, M.D. 1788. Martin Wall, M.D. 1789. James Robertson Barclay, M.D. *1790. John Ash, M.D. 1791. George Fordyce, M.D. *1792. William Cadogan, M.D. 1793. James Carmichael Smyth, M.D. *1794. John Latham, M.D. 1795. John Mayo, M.D. *1796. William Saunders, M.D. *1797. Robert Bourne, M.D. 1798. Matthew Baillie, M.D. *1799. Thomas Monro, M.D. *1800. Henry Vaughan (Halford), M.D. 1801. Edward Roberts, M.D. 1802. Henry Ainslie, M.D. 1803. George Paulet Morris, M.D. 1804. Arthur Daniel Stone, M.D. 1805. Sir Christopher Pegge, M.D. *1806. Christopher Robert Pemberton, M.D. 1807. Paggen William Mayo, M.D. *1808. Richard Powell, M.D. *1809. William Heberden, M.D. 1814. Charles Gower, M.D. 1815. William George Maton, M.D. 1816. James Haworth, M.D. 1817. George Smith Gibbes, M.D. 1818. William Lambe, M.D. *1819. John Johnstone, M.D. |