NOTES. 



That the hall of the latter contained the portraits of many botanists 

 in different forms and sizes, is a fa6l which cannot be denied. But 

 they were not fitted up according to their rank and pre-eminence, but 

 placed so, as to produce the best effecl upon the eye. For instance, the 

 portraits of Rudbeck and Gm e li n, painted in oil, and of a very large 

 size, were facing the principal entry ; Linn-^us's portrait, also large, 

 ^ "and executed in the same manner, was suspended sidewards to the left, 

 near a door, &:c. Had even Haller's portrait been exposed near 

 the principal door, its position ought solely to have been attributed to its 

 size, to symmetry, or to some other circumstances of a similar descrip- 

 tion. Thus operated the most insignificant trifles ; — thus was Li n n u s 

 calumniated, and Haller deceived! 



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" ' The younger Baron Haller had been ensnared to write against 

 LiNNiEUs. He assured the latter afterwards, that he was sorry to 

 have written against him. What a fine triumph of truth and justice 

 for Linnaeus! But this was not the only one; even Siegesbeck, 

 his first and most inveterate enemy, likewise intreated him in a letter 

 " to forgive the injury he had done hi7n, and to exert his interest to procnre 



him ihe place of keeper of the botanical garden at Upsal." 



The latter part of his request could not, for m.any reasons, be 

 granted, although Siegesbeck well understood the cultivation of plants. 



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The Heisteria of Linn/£us (afterwards Polygala Heisteria) is a bush 

 with spiny leaves, but otherwise not of an unpleasant appearance. 



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