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NOTES. 
PAGE 97. 
Eh ret was a Palatine by birth. When he first began to draw for 
Linn/EUs he gave himself no trouble about the number of stamina 
and pistilla ; but the instructions which were given him afterwards pros- 
pered o well in his productions, that he could anatomize the plants in a 
very short time, and in the finest and most delicate manner. 
page 116. 
The principal cause of the indifference which Baron Haller testified 
with regard to Linnaeus is t- e found in all kinds of tell-tale reports 
of aCts or words of Linn^us, by • ch he was stated to have expressed 
how little esteem he had for Haller. But these reports were frequeutly 
the work of misconstruction, wilful malice, or fiCtion. By such scandal 
how often have not the learned been exasperated and embittered against 
one another? Perhaps more than one enemy of the good Linnaeus 
had recourse to those vile arts of prejudicing him in the mind of the 
Baron, who was not always strongly enough upon his guard, to treat 
such insinuations with the contempt which they so justly merited. One 
of these enemies waited once upon Baron H ller about the time when 
this coolness st began to manifest itself between him and Linnaeus, 
and intimated to the Baron, that LinnjEus made it his business to tra- 
duce him (Haller) ; and to make good his assertion, the base slan- 
derer added, that Linnaeus had assigned a disgraceful place to the 
portrait of Haller, almost behind the door o F the hall where he kept 
the portraits of the bou. fists. The insinuations ,,s calumniator are 
said to have operate 1 r> st forcibly upon the m ;id of the Baron to the 
prejudice of Linnaus. 
That 
