DR. JOHN DEE (1527-1608)

A very learned and a very credulous man. He was adviser on Emperor detained him, and retained him, as an alchemist. Dee medicine, magic, and alchemy to Queen Elizabeth who had much returned to England and practiced no more alchemy. Kelly was faith in the Art and contributed money to its practitioners. He unable to accomplish the transmutation; he was imprisoned and experimented in spiritism and alchemy, and was deceived in both eventually died, in 1597, in consequence of injuries received in an by the clairvoyant and charlatan, Edward Kelly. A notation in attempt to escape. his diary for 1579 r e a d ~ " E . K . made projection with his powder Dee's crystal ball, in which Mary, ueen of Scots, is reported in the proportion of one minim upon an ounce and a uarter of to have foreseen her fate, is preserve % . in the British Museum. mercury and nearly an ounce of best gold." % 1584 he Some of the books from his splendid library came into the posses- took Kelly with him to Prague whither the Queen had sent him on sion of John Winthrop, Jr., and a few of these, containing the sig- a mission to the court of Rudolf 11. Kelly convinced the Em- natures of both of the men, are now in The Society Library in peror that he had the secret of the Philosopher's Stone, and the New York City. (Confribufed 6.q Tenncy L. Davis.)