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anatomy in an amphitheatre which the re- 

 public had estabhshed for that purpose ; he 

 was also physician to an hospital, and en- 

 trusted with the care of the public library, 

 and cabinet of medals. In the first year 

 that he undertook the latter office he formed 

 a regular catalogue of all the books, .and 

 arranged and described in chronological 

 order more than 5000 antique medals. King 

 George the Second being desirous of pro- 

 moting the reputation of the University of 

 Gbttingen, invited Haller to accept of an 

 anatomical, surgical, and botanical profes- 

 sorship, which he established for him ; and 

 Haller accepted this invitation. The op- 

 portunities of information at the school of 

 Berne were too small for the mind of Hal- 

 ler, and he there met with the usual diffi- 

 culty of procuring bodies for dissection. 



Haller resided in Gottingen seventeen 

 years, and made physiology his principal 

 study. He found the knowledge of this 

 subject encumbered and perplexed with 

 false and absurd assertions and doctrines, 

 which he removed, and endeavoured to 

 make physiology as much like science as 

 possible. He sa\Y the necessity for an exact 



