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LINNEAN SOCIETY OF LOXDON. 41
ABiSTEACTS.
April 21st, 1904.
Mr. E. MoETON MiDDLETON, F.L.S., exhibited a holograph letter
from Linnaeus to Haller, of which the following is a copy :
DD ALB :
Viro Illustri
HALLEEO
Medico & Botanico Cousumatissimo
S[alutem] pl[urimam] d[icit]
Caeolus Linnjeus.
Cum ante octiduum IStockholmiae eram, Academia Eegia
Scientiarum Stockholmeusis Membra extranea deuomiuavit; uti
Gesnerum, Jussiaeum, Te, Gmelinum, tSauvagesium, Claytonum,
CoUiusonum, Swietenium. mihi in mandatis dedit praedicta
Societas et Academia, ut Te hisce literis perofficiose vocarem, et
invitarem ; hocce, levidense licet, animi mei piguus non respuas,
qui natus es in Scientiarum reformationem atque restitutioneia.
Quod si benigne excipias literas mittas ad Academiam Eegiam
Scientiarum Stockholmiae, ipsique signilices Tehascemeasaccepisse.
Vale.
Dabam Upsalise 1747.
D. 12 Mali.
The address is as follows :
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Medico & Botanico Sunimo
DD ALB : HALLEE
Archiatro, Consiliauo & Professori
Societ. Sclent. Upsal. & Stockholm. Soc. [sicj
GoLtingen.
This letter was printed in Latin in ' Epistolarum ab Eruditis
Viris ad Alb. Hallerum,' published at Berue in 1773, vol. ii.
p. 32G. It is also printed in Smith's ' Correspondence of
Linnaeus,' vol. ii. p. 415. The seal, of red wax, is still sharp ; it
is engraved in the Memoir of Linnaeus published at Upsala and
Stockholm in 1823. The device upon this seal is Linncea borealis
within a ring round which two snakes are twisted as supporters.
Motto, " Dioscorides Secimdus." Above the ring is an open
book, bearing on the dexter page the motto "ISunquam otiosus,"
while on the sinister side the sun sheds its rays from the upper
corner.
The letter had been of late years in the possession of a clergyman
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