THE ZOOLOGIST 



No. 734.— August, 1902. 



ERASMUS AS A NATURALIST. 



By G. W. Murdoch, Naturalist Editor of the ' Yorkshire 

 Weekly Post,' &c. 



This article on Erasmus as a naturalist is based on the follow- 

 ing works : — 



' In Praise of Folly,' Reeves and Turner's edition, 1876. 



' The Colloquies,' Bailey's Translation, 1735. 



'Enchiridion Militis Christiani ' (1515). 



Nisard's 'Etudes sur la Renaissance' (1855). 



Seebohm's ' Oxford Reformers ' (1869). 



' Life and Letters of Erasmus ' (Longmans & Co.), for the 

 loan of a copy of which I have to thank a distinguished brother 

 naturalist. 



By Sir Thomas More: 'Utopia' (English version, 1556). 

 ' History of King Richard III.' (1513). 



' Life of Sir Thomas More,' by his Son-in-law, William Roper 

 (Singer's rare edition, 1817). 



Stapleton's ' Tres Thornse ' (Douai, 1588), and ' The Life and 

 Writings of Sir Thomas More,' by the Rev. T. E. Bridget, S.J., 

 (London: Burns & Oates, 1891). 



It will be observed that I have included several of Sir Thomas 

 More's works, and I should have liked to have dealt with these 

 illustrious authors jointly, for it is nearly impossible to separate 

 them in their lives and works, as true naturalists, as unrivalled 

 scholars, humanists, satirists, reformers of gross abuses, and 



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