Title:
Albrecht von Haller to Carl Linnaeus
Type:
Image
Licence:
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Repository:
The Linnean Society of London
Collection:
Linnaean Correspondence
Reference number:
LC/6/100
Archival level:
Item
Date:
12 August 1748
Placement:
Volume 6: 193
Extent:
193
Language:
la
Description:
Albrecht von Haller sends this letter with Henri Missa, who is very devoted to botany and the study of genera. Haller demonstrated to Georg Erhard Hamberger some differences between himself and Linnaeus regarding grasses and some plants. Haller has written a review of Linnaeus’s Hortus Upsaliensis, in which there are many changes regarding species. He will send Trendelenburg’s dissertation on a natural method. Haller has found a lot of Mariscus marinus. Its character differs both from Schoenus and from Pietro Antonio Micheli’s account. He has found that the placenta in Hieracium fruticosum angustifolium is covered with small scales. Linnaeus description of Arctotis differs from Haller’s own; the florets are abortive, while the androgynous florets of the disc alone are fertile. There has been very little time for botany. He has only a few seeds. There is nothing new in Germany. Linnaeus already has Jean Étienne Guettard.
Sender:
Haller, Albrecht von
Recipient:
Linnaeus, Carl
Sent to location:
[Uppsala, Sweden]
Transcription:
Ill[ustri] Viro, D[omino] D[octori] [Carolo Li]nnaeo. Has Tibi repraesentabit Missa Tuus, juvenis Tui amantissimus et omnis rei herbariae atque inprimis genera quae constituit cupidissimus, qui aliquot diebus fuit nobiscum. Nunquam Tibi fui infensus nec sum iniquus. Occasione Hambergeri, qui methodum tuam super ipsam Tuam voluntatem ursit, aliquem a Te dissensum occasione graminum et plantularum nonnullarum coactus sum demonstrare, ut inscium hominum convincerem. Nihil inde nostro decedit amori, ut videbis ex censura horti Upsaliensis, quem nuper, nescio unde accepi, et avide perlegi et multa inveni mutata in speciebus. Dissertationes Tuae mihi essent acceptissimae per Bergstralium aliosve. Mitterem ego aliqua, sed vix habeo. Editur tamen disp[utatio] de methodo naturali neque ea tamen mea sed D[omini] Trendelenburgii, quem servabo. Mariscum marinum nuper copiose inveni et characterem revolvi, qui peculiaris est et a schoeno diversus et a Micheli observatione. In Hieracio frut[icoso] angustifolio placentam squamulis distinctam reperi. In Arctoti aliter quam Tu sensi, flosculos nempe abortivos, flosculos in disco androgynos solos fertiles. Optime mereris de re herbaria, dum mittis qui eam augeant. Mihi id non licet. Regis adventus me multis implicavit laboribus et rei nocuit herbariae. De seminibus mature monebo. Ego pauca habeo et in dies, ni fallor, pauciora, sed dabitur his quoque finis. Nova in Germania nulla. Guettardum habes. Vale et me ama! D[abam] 12 Aug[usti] 1748. [address] A Monsieur / Monsieur Linnaeus Archiatre et Professeur / en botanique d’Upsal trez celebre / a Upsal
Previous reference number:
L0938
Condition note:
seal tear
