3-066-087 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Professor Owen unveiling the statue of Harvey at Folkestone, 1881. 'The statue of William Harvey now erected at Folkestone is a bronze figure, eight feet high, sculptured by Mr. Albert Bruce Joy; it is placed on a granite pedestal, at the west end of the Lees...and not far from the site of the house which was Harvey's birthplace...[The] guests of the Folkestone Mayor and Corporation from London...[included] Sir James Paget, President of the International Medical Congress [and] Professor Richard Owen, C.B., of the British Museum...Dr. George Eastes opened the proceedings, and spoke of the merits of William Harvey and his services to mankind, as one of the greatest discoverers in anatomy and physiology. He then called upon Professor Owen, one of the most eminent comparative anatomists and physiologists in the modern scientific world, to unveil the statue and present it, on behalf of the subscribers, to the Mayor and Corporation of the town. In his address, Professor Owen explained how the methods and results of Harvey's discovery have not only laid the foundation of all progress in physiology, but have been the basis of modern scientific medicine and surgery, and consequently the source of countless blessings to suffering humanity'. From "Illustrated London News", 1881.