a medical degree. This intention he did not carry out, but after residing several years in Oxford as a member of Exeter College, (during which time he edited the Religio Medici and Christian Morals in 1845,) he entered Holy Orders in 1846. He was presented to the living of Catton, near York, in 1859, and died unmarried in 1864. He was preparing a new edition of the Religio Medici, &c., at the time of his death.

JAMES T. FIELDS, an American author and publisher, born 1820 (?), died April, 1881. He was for many years an active partner in the publishing house of Ticknor and Fields at Boston, and retired from business about 1870. He reprinted Gardiner's edition of the Religio Medici, &c., with the addition of the Hydriotaphia, and extracts from Sir T. B.'s Letters, and other works, 1862. He paid several visits to this country, and was acquainted with most of the notable men of letters in England and America. He gave some lectures about his intercourse with eminent men in England, and also wrote an interesting series of papers in the Atlantic Monthly (1871) on the same subject, which were republished by himself under the title, Yesterdays with Authors, Boston, 1872. There is a notice of him in Allibone's Dict. of Authors, and Ripley and Dana's New Amer. Cyclop.

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JAMES T. FIELDS, an American author and publisher, born 1820 (?), died April, 1881. He was for many years an active partner in the publishing house of Ticknor and Fields at Boston, and retired from business about 1870. He reprinted Gardiner's edition of the Religio Medici, &c., with the addition of the Hydriotaphia, and extracts from Sir T. B.'s Letters, and other works, 1862. He paid several visits to this country, and was acquainted with most of the notable men of letters in England and America. He gave some lectures about his intercourse with eminent men in England, and also wrote an interesting series of papers in the Atlantic Monthly (1871) on the same subject, which were republished by himself under the title, Yesterdays with Authors, Boston, 1872. There is a notice of him in Allibone's Dict. of Authors, and Ripley and Dana's New Amer. Cyclop.

APPENDIX No. IV.

LIST OF EDITIONS.

RELIGIO MEDICI.

1. English Editions.

A. 1642. Small 8vo. London, Crooke.

I

There is no printed title-page, but an engraved frontispiece, representing a man falling from a rock into the sea, but caught by a hand issuing from the clouds. The motto, " à cœlo salus," and the words, "Religio Medici," are engraved on the plate; and at the foot, "Printed for Andrew Crooke, 1642. Will. Marshall scu." It contains nothing but the text, beginning (on p. 1), "For my religion," &c.; and ending (on p. 190), "Thy will be done," &c. Said to be extremely rare. (Bodl. Libr. Oxford.)

B. 1642. Small 8vo. London, Crooke.

No printed title-page, but the same engraved frontispiece as in A. It contains nothing but the text, which ends on p. 159, and which agrees generally with that of A. Wilkin thinks that this edition was probably the later of the two. The variations are chiefly orthogra

A few other editions, mentioned by bibliographers, are omitted in this list, because the Editor has not met with any satisfactory evidence of their existence.

phical; in other cases the readings of B are generally (but not always) preferable. (British Museum.)

C. 1643. Small 8vo. London, Crooke.

No printed title-page, but an engraved frontispiece with the same device, and the following words at the foot of the plate: A true and full coppy of that which was most imperfectly and surreptitiously printed before under the name of Religio Medici. Printed for Andrew Crooke, 1643."

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It contains, when complete: 1. A Letter sent [from Sir Thomas Browne to Sir Kenelme Digby] upon the Information of Animadversions to come forth, upon the imperfect and surreptitious Copy of Religio Medici; whilst this true one was going to the Presse ;"-2. Sir Kenelme Digby's answer;-3. a short address from "A. B.," "To such as have, or shall peruse the Observations upon a former corrupt Copy of this Booke;”—4. a list of more than thirty Errata (many of which were overlooked or neglected in most of the subsequent editions); --5. a preface from Sir Thomas Browne "To the Reader;"—and 6. the text (ending on p. 183) much enlarged, divided into two Parts, each of which is subdivided into Sections. This is the first authorized edition. (British Museum.) D. 1645. Small 8vo. A careless reprint of the Errata corrected.

London, Crooke.

C, with only about one-fourth of The text ends on p. 174. This appears to be the second authorized edition. (Bodl. Libr. Oxford.)

E. 1645. Small 8vo. London, Crooke.

This is apparently the same edition as the preceding, but with various corrections made in some of the sheets