MEMOIR OF BARON HALLER. 41 
Hanover, and also made him a Privy Counsellor : 
he also requested for him from the Emperor, letters 
of nobility, which were transmitted in the most 
flattering manner in 1749; hut notwithstanding, 
Haller would never assume the title of Baron, 
though frequently and properly applied to him. 
Many of the most celebrated universities made the 
attempt of enticing him to become their associate, 
but in vain. The celebrated Dillenius was anxious 
to procure him as his successor in the botanical 
chair at Oxford. The year after, he was urgently 
solicited to e6!aiblisli himself at Utrecht as chancellor 
of its TOtTOSOty ; and shortly afterwards, the king 
of Ihntfia, '.pell known as the patron of letters and 
the friend «f learned men, offered him, on the most 
liberal conditions, the presidency of the academy at 
Berlin. Marshal Keith wrote to him in the name 
of his sovereign, offering him the chancellorship of 
the university of Halle, and Count Orloff invited 
him to Russia, in the name of his mistress the 
empress, offering him a distinguished place at 
St. Petersburgh ; hut to all these solicitations he 
returned a negative reply. 
There was only one country which Haller preferred 
to Hanover, and that was his native land. To it 
he returned in 1753, on perceiving that his strength 
was no longer equal to the discharge of the numerous 
avocations in which he was engaged. Besides, he 
had now great scientific projects in view, and the 
engagements connected with the three chairs he 
filled at Gottingen very much interfered with the 
