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The quantity of work achieved by Haller in the seventeen years during which he occupied his Göttingen professorship was immense.

Apart from the ordinary work of his classes, which entailed the task of newly organizing a botanical garden ( the Alte Botanische Garten der Universität Göttingen ), an anatomical theatre and museum, an obstetrical school, and similar institutions, he carried on without interruption those original investigations in botany and physiology, the results of which are preserved in the numerous works associated with his name ; he continued also to persevere in his youthful habit of poetical composition, while at the same time he conducted a monthly journal ( the Göttingische gelehrte Anzeigen ), to which he is said to have contributed twelve thousand articles relating to almost every branch of human knowledge.

He also warmly interested himself in most of the religious questions, both ephemeral and permanent, of his day ; and the erection of the Reformed church in Göttingen was mainly due to his unwearied energy.