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/6/92
Archival level:
Item
Date:
3 February 1746
Placement:
Volume 6: 183
Extent:
183
Language:
la
Description:
Albrecht von Haller has received Linnaeus’s letter of 7 January 1746 o.s., 15 January 1746 n.s. He would like to have Linnaeus’s opinion on Allium. The two Cepae cannot be separated. He will write a history of the Orchides, which abound with false species. Haller would like to have the Orchis of the sands of Zeeland and the Lapland Calceolus. Eberhard Rosenblad will forward seeds of Amaranthus siculus, Chamelaea, Boraginoides and Verbesina. A live plant of Commelina flavo flore will be sent. He may prepare a flora of Germany instead of a new edition of Enumeratio methodica stirpium Helvetiae indigenarum. Haller would like to examine Joachim Burser’s herbarium. He does not think that he has Anandria, unless it is Jacobaea Cacaliae folio. He has a new edition of Fabio Colonna’s Phytobasanos. Haller intends to give a description of the Amethystina, a new genus.
Sender:
Haller, Albrecht von
Recipient:
Linnaeus, Carl
Sent to location:
[Uppsala, Sweden]
Transcription:
Illustri viro D[omino] D[octori] Linnaeo S[alutem] P[lurimam] A[lbertus] Haller. Sero, sed accepi tamen Tuas 7 Januarii datas. Semina notavi mirorque Te quae Lubecam misi non accepisse. Quae vero Tu priori anno promisisti semina et libellos exoptatissimos et plantulas siccas septentrionalium omnes mittere potes Collegae Tuo Rosénio, qui Lubecam deferri curabit. Frater ejus Viri, ut nosti, nobiscum nunc vivit. De Alliis mallem sententiam Tuam nosse. Cepae certe duae vetant separari. Si plures species habuissem, opusculum dedissem utilius. Sed nemo dudum quidquam mihi misit cogorque meo succo vivere. Interim Tu me melius nosti, quanta prius fuerit specierum Allii confusio etiam apud optimos. Orchidum nunc historiam dare conabor oneratissimarum falsis speciebus. Si orchidem sabuletorum Seelandiae et calceolum Laponicum mittere posses, gratissimam rem faceres. Icones etiam aliquot addam. Nova mea vero per Rosenium mittam et semina Amaranthi siculi, Chamelaeae, Borraginoidis, Verbesinae. Commelinae flavo flore forte plantam mittere praestiterit. Omnia Tua erunt acceptissima bonis. Germaniae floram meditor loco novae editionis stirpium Helveticarum, cujus exemplaria pauca supersunt. Utilissimae essent Burserianae, sed quomodo perlustrari poterunt? Societati certo mittam aliqua. Nunc obruor laboribus Anatomicis moram nullam patientibus. Anandriam non puto me habere, nisi sit Jacobaea Cacaliae f[olio]. Sed ea nondum mihi floruit. Hac aestate excurram in arenosa Collensia & Torfacea plantularum causa. Novos libros ad rem nostram nullos vidi nisi Phytobasani Col[onnae] splendidam novam editionem. Tu vero vale! Frequentius rescribe et me porro ama! Possemus cum utriusque utilitate de re herbaria commercium alere certe de Germanicis aut Sibiricis plantis earumque characteribus. Amethystinae novum genus dabo descriptio[nem]. Vale! D[abam] III Febr[uarii] 1746. [address] A Monsieur / Monsieur Linnaeus Professeur / ordinaire et membre de divers / Academies / a Upsal
Previous reference number:
L0691
Condition note:
seal tear
