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lege for the improvement of fur- 
gery. He formed the plan for a 
\ Royal Society of Sciences, of which 
he was appomted perpetual pre- 
fident. 
The comprehenfive mind and 
verfatile genius of Haller, united 
with his unremitting diligence and 
ardour, in all his purfuits, enabled 
him to cultivate with uncommon 
fuccefs, a variety of knowledge. 
Had not the great Swede pre-occu- 
pied the field, it is probable, that 
Haller would have ftood the firft 
among his contemporaries as an im- 
prover of botanical knowledge. 
In 1742, his great botanical work 
on the plants of Switzerland, the 
refult of fourteen years ftudy, made 
its appearance. It was. entitled, 
| Enumeratio Methodica Stirpium Hel- 
_wetie, in z vols. folio. It was the 
‘moft copious Flora the world had 
ever feen, comprifing 1,840 fpecies, 
. and was enriched with feveral ad- 
vantages, that rendered it fingularly 
,acceptable. ‘The preface contains 
"a compendious geographical de- 
_{cription of Switzerland, and of the 
_ Alps particularly; an account of 
all the authors who- had written on 
the plants of that country; the re- 
_ ¢ital of his own journies; acknow- 
' Iedgments to thofe who had affifted 
him; concluding with the order and 
method he means to purfue in this 
work. NEI 
_ [We muft refer our readers for a 
more detailed account of the bota- 
nical and medical works of Haller, 
to Mr. Coxe’s valuable letter, from 
which thefe extracts are taken. ] 
- He proceeds to inform us that 
' Halier’s emoluments augmented as 
_his merits: were difplayed ; and ho- 
“nours flowed upon him from all 
quarters. He was elected, in 1748, 
into the Royal Society of Stock- 
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holm, into that of London in 1749, 
and in 1754 chofen one of the eight 
foreign members in the Academy 
of Sciences at Paris. In 1739, he 
was appointed phyfician to George 
the Second, and king’s counfellor 
in 1740. In 1749, the emperor 
Francis conferred on him letters of 
nobility at the requeft of George 
the Second; and about the fame 
tume the king, in a vifit which he 
paid to the univerfity, diftinguifhed 
Haller with particular marks of ap- 
probation. 
He declined, in 1745, an invita- 
tion to Oxford, which would pro- 
bably have terminated in his nomi- 
nation to the profefforfhip of bo- — 
tany, vacant by the death of the 
celebrated Dillenius ; a fecond from — 
the univerfity of Utrecht; and, in 
1750, a third from the king of 
Pruffia, with the offer of a very con- 
fiderable penfion. 
At length, in 1753, induced by 
the precarious ftate of his health, 
by the defire of removing. from 
Gottingen, which he called the 
grave of his wives, and by his 
earneft anxiety to dedicate the re- 
mainder of his days to the fervice 
of his country, he took a journey 
to Berne, in order to procure an 
eftablifhment, which, though no 
adequate to his prefent appoint- 
ments, might place him in the 
bofom of his beloved Switzerland. — 
His grateful country rewarded 
this difinterefted attachment with the 
moft liberal and unbounded confi- 
dence, and employed his talents in 
the public fervice. 
In 1757, he was fent to reform 
the academy of Laufanne; and, in 
the following year, was deputed © 
by the Senate to examine fome cu- 
rious remains of antiquity lately 
difcovered at Culm. About the 
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