40 MEMOIR OP BARON HALLER. 



named its president. He also greatly promoted 

 the establishment of various public hospitals, and 

 also of a public museum to which he largely con- 

 tributed; and finally, he established a school for 

 artists, in which the study of delineating plants and 

 animals might receive every facility. At the time, 

 the purpose and plan of this institution were alto- 

 gether new ; and the many which have since been 

 established in almost every country upon the same 

 model, have shown the usefulness of the scheme. 



Labours so multiplied and important as these, 

 were the sure means of insuring to Haller the 

 highest possible celebrity. Almost every academy 

 in Europe hastened to enrol his name among it; 

 members. In 1748 he was elected a member cf 

 the Royal Society at Stockholm ; and the king a 

 Sweden conferred on him an unsolicited honour, b r 

 raising him to the rank of knight of the order <f 

 the Polar Star, the highest order in the kingdom 

 conferred only on such scientific men as Linnaeu! 

 and Haller. In 1749 he was elected a fellow o' 

 the Royal Society of London, and in 1754 In 

 became one of the foreign associates of the Aca 

 demie des Sciences at Paris. In 1745 his owl 

 country likewise conferred an honour upon hiii 

 with which he was highly gratified ; the republic o* 

 Berne appointed him a seat in its Supreme Council 

 George II. of England, ever manifested the livelies 

 interest in his welfare, and when at Gottingei 

 always loaded him with kindness. In 1739 b 

 named him his first physician in the electorate c 



