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thereof at the command of the Elector and sent it to him when finished, but it was never 

 pubhshed as written by Agricola. Albinus, Hofmann, and Struve give some details of letters 

 in reference to it. Fabricius in a letter^' dated Nov. ii, 1536 asks Meurer to send Agricola 

 some material for it ; in a letter from Fabricius to Meurer dated Oct. 30, 1554, it appears 

 that the Elector had granted Agricola 200 thalers to assist in the work. After Agricola's 

 death the material seems to have been handed over to Fabricius, who made use of it (as he 

 states in the preface) in preparing the work he was commissioned by the Elector to write, 

 the title of which was, Originum illnstrissimae stirpis Saxonicae Libri, and was published in 

 Leipzig, 1597. It includes on page 880 a fragment of a work entitled Oratio de rebus Gestis 

 Ernesti et Alberti Ducum Saxoniae, by Agricola. 



WORKS WRONGLY ATTRIBUTED TO GEORGIUS AGRICOLA. 



The following works have been at one time or another wrongly attributed to Georgius 

 Agricola : — 



Galerazeya sive Revelator Secreiorum De Lapide Philosophorum, Cologne, 1531 and 

 1534, by one Daniel Agricola, which is merelj' a controversial book with a catch-title, used 

 by Catholics for converting heretics. 



Rechter Gebranch der Alchimey, a book of miscellaneous receipts which treats very 

 slightly of transmutation.** 



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. 



*'Baumgarten-Cnisius, p. 2. 



'^See Ferguson, Biblioiheca Chemica, s.v. Daniel Agricola. 



