PREFACE.

the Master and Fellows of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge; the Master and Fellows of Magdalene College, Cambridge; and the President and Fellows of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, for permission to examine the manuscripts original: "MSS."; shorthand for handwritten documents dating from the medieval period. of Bacon belonging respectively to these societies.

John Henry Bridges (1832–1906), the physician and scholar responsible for editing this 1897 edition of Bacon's work.

March 26, 1897.