of culture and high character, there are some well-known names which arrest our attention, as belonging to those who contributed conspicuously to the progress of science or medicine in their time, or who had been of special service to this College. In addition to Linacre, Caius, and Prujean, already referred to, may be specially mentioned the names of Richard Caldwell, who helped to found the Lumleian Lectures; William Gilbert, who "opened the modern era by treating magnetism and electricity on a scientific basis," who was also Treasurer for some time, and who made valuable bequests to the College; Francis Glisson, who added to the knowledge of anatomy and pathology, and whose name is so intimately associated with rickets; Sir George Ent, whose relation to Harvey has already been alluded to, and who also made a pecuniary bequest to the College; Sir Hans Sloane; William Pitcairn; and Sir George Baker, greatly honoured in his day as a scholar and practical physician, and famed for his research on the nature of Devonshire colic.
In the nineteenth century the presidential chair was occupied by some of the most eminent physicians of their day, including before 1860 Lucas Pepys, Francis Milman, John Latham, Henry Halford, John Paris, and Thomas Mayo
