LINNEAN SOCIETY OF LOXDON. 41 



ABiSTEACTS. 



April 21st, 1904. 



Mr. E. MoETON MiDDLETON, F.L.S., exhibited a holograph letter 

 from Linnaeus to Haller, of which the following is a copy : — 



Viro Illustri 

 DD ALB : HALLEEO 



Medico & Botanico Cousumatissimo 



S[alutem] pl[urimam] d[icit] 



Caeolus Linn jeus. 



Cum ante octiduum IStockholmiae eram, Academia Eegia 

 Scientiarum Stockholmeusis Membra extranea deuomiuavit; uti 

 Gesnerum, Jussiaeum, Te, Gmelinum, tSauvagesium, Claytonum, 

 CoUiusonum, Swietenium. mihi in mandatis dedit praedicta 

 Societas et Academia, ut Te hisce literis perofficiose vocarem, et 

 invitarem ; hocce, levidense licet, animi mei piguus non respuas, 

 qui natus es in Scientiarum reformationem atque restitutioneia. 

 Quod si benigne excipias literas mittas ad Academiam Eegiam 

 Scientiarum Stockholmiae, ipsique signilices Tehascemeasaccepisse. 

 Vale. 



Dabam Upsalise 1747. 

 D. 12 Mali. 



The address is as follows : — 



Medico & Botanico Sunimo 

 DD ALB : HALLEE 



Archiatro, Consiliauo & Professori 



Societ. Sclent. Upsal. & Stockholm. Soc. [sicj 



GoLtingen. 



This letter was printed in Latin in ' Epistolarum ab Eruditis 

 Viris ad Alb. Hallerum,' published at Berue in 1773, vol. ii. 

 p. 32G. It is also printed in Smith's ' Correspondence of 

 Linnaeus,' vol. ii. p. 415. The seal, of red wax, is still sharp ; it 

 is engraved in the Memoir of Linnaeus published at Upsala and 

 Stockholm in 1823. The device upon this seal is Linncea borealis 

 within a ring round which two snakes are twisted as supporters. 

 Motto, " Dioscorides Secimdus." Above the ring is an open 

 book, bearing on the dexter page the motto "ISunquam otiosus," 

 while on the sinister side the sun sheds its rays from the upper 

 corner. 



The letter had been of late years in the possession of a clergyman 



