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assiduously devoted himself; and it would not be 

 easy to state all that in this way he acomplished. 

 During his residence at Gottingen he published an 

 edition of a work of Rupp's, which he greatly 

 augmented, on the Flora of Jena ; and shortly after- 

 vards, that of a German work, in which was col- 

 lected every thing which related to the history of 

 the representation and engraving of plants, and 

 respecting those artists who had devoted themselves 

 *.o this kind of work. In 1750, he became the 

 tditor of a German translation of Bufforis Natural 

 distort/^ to which he prefixed an able dissertation, 

 vhich was speedily translated into French; and 

 aso of a work of Formey's entitled the Triumph of 

 Ividence ; likewise of a " Collection of Voyages 

 aid Travels," the utility of which he demonstrated 

 ii a lengthened preface. The only other works we 

 siall add to this list are the Poems of Worlhof, a 

 dictionary of Natural History r , by Messrs. Yalmont 

 aid Bomare ; a Comparison between the Temperature 

 o Switzerland and Canada ; and finally, a Treatise 

 o* the Baron de Lind upon The Veterinary Art. 



During the period of his stay at Gottingen, Haller 

 otan originated, and ever lent a ready and most 

 sifiicient help to such schemes as promised to sub- 

 srve the interests of science, and to promote the 

 piblic weal. Thus, in 1751, he procured a charter 

 f<r the surgeons of the town, and on their incorpo- 

 rdion was elected their first president. He did 

 tie same important service for the Royal Society of 

 Sience ; drew up its original constitution, and was 



