2-913-553 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Dr. Alderson delivering the Harveian Oration, in the Theatre of the Royal College of Physicians, 1854. Sir James Alderson, physician to St. Mary's Hospital in London, makes a speech in Latin, in which he laments the lack of a statue to commemorate William Harvey: 'It was in these Lumleian Lectures that Harvey first announced his great discovery of the circulation of the blood'. From "Illustrated London News", 1854.