PREFACE OF THE AUTHOR. 
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What Baron Haller’s opinion was of Linnaeus, after 
their friendship had been cooled by the assertions made by the 
latter in his Flora Suecica, will appear from the following ex- 
trad of a letter, never printed before, and written by Haller 
from Goettingen, to his friend Nils Rosen de Rosenstein, 
dean of the college of physicians at Upsat : 
“ The inclosed letter I beg you will deliver to Linnaeus. 
“ Should he not return to more friendly sentiments, it may 
“ be the last I shall write to him. He has lately apolo- 
“ gized to me in a letter, but in such a manner, that I had 
k£ rather been without his apology. I have, in many in- 
“ stances, shewn myself his friend, indulged his failings, con- 
“ tributed to his reputation ; but do not find that return for 
“ my kindness which I had a right to exped. I shall hereafter 
“ publish a Prodromus Floras Germanicce, in which I will treat 
“ Linn a: us in such a manner as he shall then have merited on 
“ my account. The man is adive I cannot deny, and a zea- 
“ lous lover of nature, for which I love him ; but his charader 
“ has for me a something — I know not what to call it, of aspe- 
“ rity, fickleness and unevenness.” 
f LiNNjEo nuper per litteras se purganti, sed ita, ut mallem, abstineret purga- 
tione, has litteras trades, forte, nisi ad amiciorem sensum redibit, ultimas. Mul- 
tum ipsi tribui, peperci erroribus, famam auxi : non invenio eum mese comitatis 
fructum, quern sperare poteram. — Edam deinde Germanicae Florx Prodromum, in 
quo de Linn jeo ita agetur, ut interim de me merebitur. Laboriosus certe homo est 
etNaturae cupidus, hinc mihi carus, sedcujus mores mecum nescio quid insequabile 
babentet inconstans et asperum. — (Communicated from Stockholm ). 
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