218 A Tribute to the Memory of 
|The Memoirs of, Albert de, Haller,’’ 
which were published by. Mr. Henry in, 1783, 
and: dedicated to this Society, were derived 
partly’ froma French Eloge, and partly from 
information, communicated by ; the. late, Dr. 
Foart Simmons. A more complete view of 
the life and acquirements. of that extraordi- 
nary man might have been collected, ata sub- 
sequent period, from other publications of the 
- same kind, which were addressed,to different 
learned societies on the continent... In, one 
respect, Mr. Henry appears to have,taken 
too favourable a view of the character. of 
Haller, in ascribing to him gentleness of, dis- 
position ; for that illustrious, and in the main 
excellent, person, seems to have been a man 
of quick passions, and not sufficiently resery- 
ed in the,expression of them; as may be ga- 
thered from his controversy with Dr. Whytt 
ef Edinburgh. , Haller is represented, _also, 
by: his \biographer, as afflicted with the, per- 
sonal.defect of weak eyes; which, from a 
passage in his Physiology,* appears not to 
have been. correct. ‘ Aquz purz,”’ he says,”’ 
qua ab, anno, etatis 18 sola utor, tribuo, 
quod post tot in fulgido sole susceptos micros- 
eopicos, labores, omnibus sensibus, et oculis 
* Tom. vi. p. 240. Edit. 2, Lausanne.) > 
