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(2) Joannis Caii Britanni de libris suis, etc., 1570.
(2a) See J.C.Bay: Papers Bibliog.Soc.of America, 1916, X, No.

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"Conrad Gesner, who kept open house there for all learned men who came into his neighborhood.

Gesner was not only the best naturalist among the scholars of his day, but of all men of that century he was the pattern man of letters.

He was faultless in private life, assiduous in study, diligent in maintaining correspondence and good-will with learned men in all countries, hospitable--though his means were small--to every scholar that came into Zurich.

Prompt to serve all, he was an editor of other men's volumes, a writer of prefaces for friends, a suggestor to young writers of books on which they might engage themselves, and a great helper to them in the progress of their work.