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not quite as elegant in its construction as Tiliander, but its 

 meaning is just the same. It is another way of turning Lind- 

 man into Latin. And so Nils Ingemarsson, by changing his 

 name to Linnaeus, paid high compliment to that uncle and 

 benefactor, Sven Tiliander, to whom he owed so very much, 

 commemorated again that ornament of the northern landscape, 

 the great linden tree, and supplied to all scientific posterity 

 the illustrious and immortal name Linnceus. In view of this, 

 that the most signal and lasting service that the greatest Lin- 

 naeus rendered botany was the reform he wrought in the Latin 

 nomenclature of plants, the derivation of his own name, its 

 botanical origin and character, can not fail to be of interest to 

 all who, on this his two-hundredth natal day, unite in celebrat- 

 ing his imperishable fame. 



The Reverend Nils Linnaeus, was no sooner married and 

 settled in the charge of a parish than he began the creation of 

 an orchard and garden ; following the inspiration he had 

 received in boyhood while under the benign influence of his 

 uncle, the Reverend Sven Tiliander. When Nils Linnjeus's 

 garden had been four or five years established, the proprietor 

 began to lead within its precincts his first-born child, a small 

 white-haired boy, active and intelligent beyond the average, 

 for his years. Flowers, beyond all things else, were this small 

 child's delight. Even at the age of four years he knew the 

 names of all the familiar kinds. On a May day picnic excur- 

 sion that the pastor gave the children of the parish, to a wild and 

 beautiful spot some few miles away, this botanical nomenclator 

 that he was to be, nearly monopolized the pastor's time with 

 questions of plant names. Many kinds, to him until now un- 

 known, and therefore nameless, he must have names for. Some 

 of them were forgotten within an hour, and were brought again. 

 The father's patience gave way a little, and the threat was made 

 that unless Master Karl Linneeus was more careful to remem- 

 ber them he would get no more plant names at all. If the 

 Reverend Nils Linnaeus had thought it time to begin to check 

 his child's extraordinary zeal for plant knowledge, this was the 

 wrong way to go about it. That threat, though a mild one, 

 would be sure to have the opposite effect. If the infant had in- 



