NOTES. 
433 
That the hall of the latter contained the portraits of many botanists 
in different forms and sizes, is a fa£t 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 effect upon the eye. For instance, the 
portraits of Rudbeck. and Gmelin, painted in oil, and of a very large 
size, were facing the principal entry ; Linn/euss portrait, also laige, 
and executed in the same manner, was suspended sidewards to the ieit, 
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 in nstaraes 01 a similar descrip- 
tion. Thus operated the most insigni ant trifles;— thus was Linn a: us 
calumniated, and Haller deceived! 
pace 119. 
The younger Baron Haller had been ensnared to write againsi 
LinnjEUS. 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 Siecesblck, 
his first and most inveterate enemy, likewise intreated him in a letter 
a to forgive the injury he had done him, and to exert his interest to pi ocm e 
«. him the place of keeper of the botanical garden at Upsal. 
The latter part of his request could not, for many easons, be 
granted, although Siegesbeck well understood the cultivation of plants. 
page 137. 
The Heisteria of _ -eus (afterwards Polygai Heisteria) is a bush 
with spiny leaves, but ^iherwise not of an n asant appearance. 
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