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OWING to various circumstances, this important volume has not received earlier notice; but we may hope that in the case of a work of permanent value there may be some advantage in a later notice which shall recall attention to a standard volume which otherwise, in the flood of books from the press, might be temporarily forgotten. Its contents and the occasion of its appearance are sufficiently recorded in the title, and the names of its editors—including some not titular editors who collaborated in its production—are a strong guarantee of its faithfulness: names such as the late Master of Caius, Dr. Venn, the late Dr. Payne—a learned coadjutor who was lost to the world of letters and of medicine during its preparation—and Dr. Norman Moore.
The Works of John Caius, M.D., Second Founder of Gonville and Caius College, and Master of the College, 1559-1573.
With a Memoir of his Life by Dr. John Venn. Edited, at the request of the Governing Body of the College and of the President and Fellows of the Royal College of Physicians, by E. S. Roberts, Master. In commemoration of the four hundredth anniversary of the birth of John Caius in 1910. Pp. xii + 828. (Cambridge University Press, 1912.) Price 18s. net.
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A., C. A Practical Visionary . Nature 92, vi (1914). https://doi.org/10.1038/092via0
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