turn he was
invited to reside at the courts of several princes, but preferred to
settle in his native town of Nuremberg, where he had a botanical garden
and formed extensive collections. He wrote a _Hortus Medicus_ (1588) and
several other works. He died at Nuremberg on the 11th of October 1598.

CAMERARIUS, RUDOLF JAKOB (1665-1721), German botanist and physician, was
born at Tubingen on the 12th of February 1665, and became professor of
medicine and director of the botanical gardens at Tubingen in 1687. He
died at Tubingen on the 11th of September 1721. He is chiefly known for
his investigations on the reproductive organs of plants (_De sexu
plantarum epistola_, 1694).

CAMERINO (anc. _Camerinum_), a city and episcopal see (since 465, if not
sooner; Treia is now combined with it) of the Marches, Italy, in the
province of Macerata, 6 m. S. of the railway station of Castelraimondo
(to which there is an electric tramway) which is 24 m. W. of Macerata;
2148 ft. above sea-level. Pop. (1901) of town, 4005; of commune, 12,083.
The cathedral is modern, the older building having fallen in 1799; the
church of S. Venanzio suffered similarly, but preserves a portal of the
15th century. The citadel, perhaps constructed from the plans of
Leonardo da Vinci, dates from 1503. Camerino occupies the site of the
ancient Camerinum, the inhabitants of which (_Camertes Umbri_) became
allies of the Romans in 310 B.C. (at the time of the attack on the
Etruscans in the Ciminian Forest). On the other hand, the [Greek:
Kamertioi] referred to in the history of the year 295 B.C. are probably
the inhabitants of Clusium. Later it appears as a dependent autonomous
community with the _foedus aequum_ (Mommsen, _Rom. Staatsrecht_, iii.
664). Two cohorts of Camertes fought with distinction under Marius
against the Cimbri. It was much affected by the conspiracy of Catiline,
and is frequently mentioned in the Civil Wars; under the empire it was a
_municipium_. It belonged to ancient Umbria, but was on the borders of
Picenum. No ancient buildings are visible, the Roman level lying as much
as 30 ft. below the modern.

See P. Savini, _Storia delta Citta di Camerino_ (2nd ed., Camerino,
1895); M. Mariani, _Intorno agli antichi Camerti Umbri_ (Camerino,
1900). (T. As.)

CAMERON, JOHN (1579-1623), Scottish theologian, was born at Glasgow
about 1579, and received his early education in his native city. After
having taught Greek in t