40 MEMOIR OP BARON HALLER. 
named its president. He also greatly promoted 
tlie establishment of various public hospitals, and 
also of a public museum to which he largely con- 
tributed; and finally, he established a school for 
artists, in which the study of delineating plants and 
animals might receive every facility. At the time, 
the purpose and plan of this institution were alto- 
gether new ; and the many which have since been 
established in almost every country upon the same 
model, have shown the usefulness of the scheme. 
Labours so multiplied and important as these, 
were the sure means of insuring to Haller the 
highest possible celebrity. Almost every academy 
in Europe hastened, to enrol his name among its 
memhers. In 1748 he was elected a member of 
the Royal Society at Stockholm ; and the king of 
Sweden conferred on him an unsolicited honour, by 
raising him to the rank of knight of the order of 
the Polar Star, the highest order in the kingdom, 
conferred only on such scientific men as Linnasus 
and Haller. In 1749 he was elected a fellow of 
the Royal Society of London, and in 1754 he 
became one of the foreign associates of the Aca- 
demic des Sciences at Paris. In 1745 his own 
country likewise conferred an honour upon him 
with which he was highly gratified ; the republic of 
Berne appointed him a seat in its Supreme Council. 
George II. of England, ever manifested the liveliest 
interest in his welfare, and when at Gottingen, 
always loaded him with kindness. In 1739 he 
named him his first physician in the electorate of 
