44.8 PRINCIPLES OF BOTANY, ETC. 
full use, and who sent him for a short time to Eng- 
land. After Rudbeck’s death he became Professor 
of Botany at Upsal. The king made him baronet, 
and at last arehiater, and knight of the order of the 
Polar star. He died January 8, 1778.  Linne’s 
works are too numerous for us to mention them 
all, it will suffice to notice the last and best editions 
of his principal works *. His real merit in botarty 
consists in having corstituted the genera on better 
principles, given proper generic and trivial names, 
introduced a better terminology, described the spe- 
cies more accurately, and invented a new compre- 
hensive system founded upon the sexes of plants. 
Albrecht von Haller was born 1708. He studied 
at Leyden under the direction of the great Boer- 
haave, becaine Professor of Anatomy and Botany 
at Goettingen, left that celebrated academy, and 
went to Bern, where he became President of the 
great senate, and died 1777. Haller was one of the 
greatest geniusses of our present age, great as ana- 
tomist, physiologist, botanist, physician, poet, as po- 
litician, and tman of letters. 
* Carla Linné. Systetna plantarum curante D. Joh. Jac. 
Reichard. Francf: a M:. Tom. I. II. Til: IV. 1779 and 
1780. 8vo. 
Ejusd. Genera plantarum curante if Christ. Dan. Schreber. 
Francof. a M. Tom. I. 1789. II. 1790. 8vo. 
Ejasd. Species plantarum, curante D. Carl Ludwig Will- 
denow. Tom. I. II. III. Leipz. 1801. 8vo. 
4 Albrrechti ab Haller historia stirprum indigenarum Hel- 
vetiae. Bernae. 1768. Tom. I. II. III. fol. with 48 plates, 
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