Meric Casaubon was the learned son of a more learned father, but his erudition much exceeded his judgment.

Meric Casaubon, a Swiss literateur and critic, died in London.

In a remarkable case related by Meric, the patient, who had also first been a morphine-eater, took 350 grms.

Dee kept voluminous diaries of his experiments, part of which is published in a folio by Meric Casaubon.