26 MEMOIR, OP BARON HALLER. 



lished an account of the plants, and the arrangement 

 of the Botanic Garden at Gottingen, which work was 

 at later periods republished and greatly augmented 

 by the addition of new plants. In 1749 he collected 

 his isolated observations on the genera and species of 

 plants, and on their fructification; and published 

 them in a volume entitled Opuscula Botanica. 



An interesting anecdote has been preserved re- 

 specting an incident which occurred in one of his 

 joumies in the Alps. He was on that occasion, as 

 on many others, accompanied by his intimate friend 

 Gesner. One day both being greatly fatigued by a 

 laborious and protracted excursion, Gesner, overcome 

 by fatigue, la} T down and fell asleep on the snow, in 

 the midst of an icy atmosphere. Haller, with the 

 deepest distress, witnessed an occurrence, which, 

 however, he in vain attempted to prevent, and which 

 he apprehended might prove fatal. Goaded by the 

 urgency of the occasion, he considered by what 

 means the threatened danger might be averted, and 

 speedily one method suggested itself to the warm 

 sympathies of his heart. He stripped himself of his 

 own garments and wrapped them round Gesner, 

 and then with complacency set himself down, at no 

 small risk, to contemplate a repose which he trusted 

 would now be safe, as well as useful in recruiting 

 his friend. The result fully realized his anticipa- 

 tions: Gesner in a short lime awoke, not injured 

 but refreshed, and they together in safety escaped 

 the danger. 



What most of all, perhaps, excites astonishment 



