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thereof at the command of the Elector and sent it to him when finished, but it was neverpublished as written by Agricola. Albinus, Hofmann, and Struve give some details of lettersin reference to it. Fabricius in a letter 27 dated Nov. n, 1536 asks Meurer to send Agricolasome material for it; in a letter from Fabricius to Meurer dated Oct. 30, 1554, it appearsthat the Elector had granted Agricola 200 thalers to assist in the work. After Agricola’sdeath the material seems to have been handed over to Fabricius, who made use of it (as hestates in the preface) in preparing the work he was commissioned by the Elector to write,the title of which was, Originum illustrissimae stir-pis Saxonicae Libri, and was published inLeipzig, 1597. It includes on page 880 a fragment of a work entitled Oratio de rebus GestisErnesti et Alberti Ducum Saxoniae, by Agricola.

WORKS WRONGLY ATTRIBUTED TO 'GEORGIUS 1 AGRICOLA.

The following works have been at one time or another wrongly attributed to GeorgiusAgricola:—

Galerazeya sive Revelator Secretorum De Lapide Philosophorum, Cologne, 1531 and1534, by one Daniel Agricola, which is merely a controversial book with a catch-title, usedby Catholics for converting heretics.

Rechter Gebrauch der Alchimey, a book of miscellaneous receipts which treats veryslightly of transmutation. 28

Chronik der Stadt Freiberg by a Georg Agricola (died 1630), a preacher at Freiberg.

Dominatores Saxonici, by the same author.

Breviarum de Asse by Guillaume Bude.

De Inventione Dialectica by Rudolph Agricola.

27 Baumgarten-Crusius, p. 2.

28 See Ferguson, Bibliotheca Chemica, s.v. Daniel Agricola.