62 C ft A P T E H 5. 
*^ Germany.'' During his refidencein Swit^ 
xerlandy he con traded a friendftiip with 
Gesner, and afterwards kept up a corre- 
fpondence with him*. 
Gesner had a high opinion of Tur- 
ner, as appears by the following paffage 
-in his book De Herbis Lunariis^ printed 
Jn 1555* Ante annos 15, aiit circiter 
cum Anglicus ex Italia rediens^ me fahitaret 
(TuRNERUs) is juerit vir excellentis turn in 
re 7nedica tiim aliis pkrifque difctplinis doc- 
trifled y ant alius quijpiam vix fat is me mini ^ 
At the acceffion of Edward VI. he re- 
turned to England^ was incorporated Doc- 
tor of Phyfic at Oxford, appointed Phyfi - 
cian to Edward Duke of Somerfet, and, as 
a divine, was rewarded with a Prebend of 
.Tori^ a Canon ry of fFindfor, and the Deane- 
ry of Wells, Pie fpeaks of himfelf in the 
third part of his llerbal, when treating on 
the he-rba Britaimica^ which he took to be 
the Biftort, as having been phyfician to the 
Erie of EmhdeUy Lord of Eafi Frief- 
landr In 1551 he pubUihed the firft part 
of his hiftory of plants^ which he dedicate 
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