MEMOIR OF BARON HALLER. 43 
of laws for tlie regulation of tliis republic ; and 
was often the commissioner of his own canton to 
those assemblies to which were remitted the general 
interests of the whole. He spent six years in the 
canton of Aigle, and there printed his great work 
on physiology. 
But such employments as these could not long 
seduce the Baron from his literary occupations, 
and he speedily again applied himself to them with 
scarcely diminished energy. Within a few years of 
his return to Berne, he wrote an important work 
on Pathology, and also a treatise on Medical Elec- 
tricity, on which we do not dwell. Removed, as he 
now was, from the botanical and anatomical theatre 
of Gottingen, we might he led to suppose that he 
would have renounced these two branches of study 
But he found plants in the country, and plenty of 
the amphibia) and fishes in the lakes, as he did 
quadrupeds in the fields, and he thus amply supplied 
himself with objects of investigation. He continued 
his botanical pursuits, and with the help of the 
microscope, made many additional observations on 
the circulation of the blood in animals, on the growth 
of their hones, upon the brain and eyes of birds 
and fishes, several of which were published between 
the years 1756 and 1765, and some of which ap- 
peared at the time in the Memoirs of the Acad. 
Royal des Sciences. 
Even after Hallers health began to decline, and 
he was a good deal confined to the house, he still 
discovered objects which excited his liveliest curi- 
