Title:
Albrecht von Haller to Carl Linnaeus
Type:
Image
Licence:
Contact [email protected]
Repository:
The Linnean Society of London
Collection:
Linnaean Correspondence
Reference number:
LC/6/84
Archival level:
Item
Date:
11 January 1739
Placement:
Volume 6: 171
Extent:
171
Language:
la
Description:
Albrecht von Haller will probably remain in Göttingen only for a few years. He considers Linnaeus a worthy successor. Haller might go to Hamburg, where Theodor Kerckring’s collections are. They might be bought for the Academy. Haller would like to have the name of a merchant in Hamburg or Lübeck, to whom he can send his publications De Veronicis, De Pedicularibus, Ex itinere in Sylvam Hercyniam, Iter Helveticum 1739 and “Synopsis”. The latter is still unfinished but thirteen plates are engraved. Herman Boerhaave’s first and second volumes have been published (of vol. II there is a second, enlarged edition). Johannes Jacobus Huber’s account of his tour will be published, if enough money can be raised. During one journey Huber has found about 400 rare plants but no new ones. George Clifford has sent Linnaeus’s Hortus Cliffortianus and Adriaan van Royen his Florae Leydensis Prodromus. Haller has not yet seen Flora Virginica. Johann Georg Siegesbeck’s book has been sent. Johann Amman’s plants are rare, well described and illustrated. Haller has not come upon the works of Jacob Breyne nor the posthumous publications of Charles Plumier. Johann Jakob Dillenius will publish his Sylva muscorum, for which 36 plates are ready. Giovanni Targioni-Tozzetti threatens to publish Pietro Antonio Micheli’s second volume. Micheli has many merits but there are many trifles in his work. Haller has observed an Agaric with hard substance, truly agaric-like and similar to a Fungus. Benedikt Stähelin has made some new discoveries. The mosses flourish in January and February, the Marsileae in March and April and the Pezizae in December. P.S. In England Elizabeth Blackwell has published a herbarium consisting of 500 copper plates, with new illustrations for common plants.
Sender:
Haller, Albrecht von
Recipient:
Linnaeus, Carl
Sent to location:
[Stockholm, Sweden]
Transcription:
Viro Celeberrimo Carolo Linnaeo S[alutem] p[lurimam] d[icit] A[lbertus] Haller. Carissimae fuerunt Tuae, quae de amore Tuo luculentum testimonium continent, si quidem me gaudiorum Tuorum participem voluisti. Vive cum Tua felix & beatus! De Horto eadem mihi sententia est. Ego quidem paucis annis forte hic versabor neque unquam tradere potero digniori. Hamburgum adeundi forte nascetur occasio. Latet ibi Kerkringii Thesaurus. Is, si venalis est, redimetur in usus publicos nostrae Academiae. Suavissimum esset amicitiam nostram, quam, uti Daemones sola intelligentia colimus, hominum instar firmare conplexibus. Fac, precor, ut cognoscam unum nomen mercatoris Hamburgi aut Lubeccae, et subito habebis mea omnia, quae sunt de Veronicis, de Pedicularibus, Iter Hercynicum 1738, Iter Alpinum 1739 et Synopsis, sed haec imperfecta adhuc. 13 tamen tabulae sculptae sunt. Boerhaavii tomus I et II, ille secundo & auctior editus. Huberi iter prodibit, si potero sumtibus prospicere ad nundinas autumnales. Invenit certe multas et raras stirpes ad 400 uno itinere, novam nullam. Cliffortius hortum misit, quem Tibi debeo. Non necesse est, ut pulcherrimo libro careas, quem amicis Tuis melius dabis. Van Royen floram misit. Tota Tua est. Virginicam nondum vidi. Siegesbeckius dimissus est. Ammani plantae rarae sunt et commode descriptae atque depictae. Nonnullae nostris satis adfines videntur. Breynium nondum vidi neque posthuma Plumerii. Dillenius scribit se editurum sylvam muscorum & tabulas 36 jam parasse. Ita subito prospectum erit nostris ea in re dubiis. Targionius semper minitatur Michelianorum tomum secundum. Nummos eam in rem habet bene multos. Multa certe Michelii merita sunt. Multa etiam vana & varietates maxime in fungis in primis, quorum nunc 300 et ultra tabulas habeo. Sed crescent, opinor, perpetuo Incredibili voluptate. Fung-Agaricum vidi, qui Tuae observationi convenit, durae substantiae et vere agaricinae, caeterum similem Fungis, deinde etiam alium ad ligna nascentem dubium. Staehelinus subinde invenit aliquid novi. Ego hyeme botanicen excolere non possum ob Anatomen. Olim feci in patria, ubi hyemes saepe admodum clementes sunt. Musci certe januario & februario, Marsileae martio & aprili, Pezizae decembri M[ense] vigent. Musci Tui & omnia Tua semper me reddent beatiorem. Vale & porro, ut soles, me ama! Gottingae die XI Januar[ii] 1739. In Anglia prodit 1739 feminae nomine Blakwal herbarium 500 tabulis aeneis, quibus plantae fere vulgares novis iconibus exhibentur. [address] A Monsieur / Monsieur Charles Linnaeus / Docteur en Medecine de l’Academie Imperiale / Medecine de la Flotte / A Stokholm / på Apothequet Swanen.
Previous reference number:
L0270
Condition note:
seal tear
