Annals of medical history . evious thirty years, chiefly bythe remarkable observations of men, who had an important influ-ence on the subsequent development ofscience in this country, deserve to beheld in remembrance. Seth Ward, whowas subsequently Bishop of Exeter andof Salisbury, was the centre aroundwhom the majority of these scientificmen resolved. He was a profound states-man, but a very indifferent , who was also a Cambridge man,was, more than any single man, the livingspirit in the formation of the RoyalSociety. He was a meat mathematician,and, in a most as
Annals of medical history . evious thirty years, chiefly bythe remarkable observations of men, who had an important influ-ence on the subsequent development ofscience in this country, deserve to beheld in remembrance. Seth Ward, whowas subsequently Bishop of Exeter andof Salisbury, was the centre aroundwhom the majority of these scientificmen resolved. He was a profound states-man, but a very indifferent , who was also a Cambridge man,was, more than any single man, the livingspirit in the formation of the RoyalSociety. He was a meat mathematician,and, in a most astonishing mathematicaldream, extracted the figure root from A Patronal Festival for Thomas Willis (162 i-1625) 121 eight groups of figures—and it was cor-rect. He became Professor of Geometryat Oxford, and his reputation as a math-ematician extended throughout Europe. and became so much interested in thestudies that were in progress with Willis,Boyle and others that at first he studiedmedicine; and it is a remarkable fact. Sir William Oslfr Another man who had quite a great in-fluence was Wilkins, Warden of Wad-ham, a very ingenious man with a goodmechanical head, who was afterwardsBishop of Chester. In Wadham Collegeis still shown the early meeting roomof the Royal Society in Oxford. Perhapsthe best remembered genius of the groupis Christopher Wren, who was an un-dergraduate at Wadham College in 1649, that the distinguished architect was thefirst in England, probably in Europe, toinvent a method for the transfusion ofblood from one human being to another,or from one animal to another. He isalso remembered as the first man whomade drawings from the microscope. Healso did many of the drawings for Willissworks. Another remarkable member ofthe group was the Hon. Robert Boyle, 122 Annals of Medical History son of the Earl of Cork. He was a greatexponent of the experimental method,and every elementary student of physicsstill knows him through Boyles law. Itis astonishing when one
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