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notice of the western world, wisely and taste- 

 fully Latinized Kung-fu-tsee to Confucius. 

 A single generation earlier than Linnaeus 

 there nourished in Germany one of the great- 

 est botanical celebrities which that country 

 has produced. His splendid folios are now 

 so rare that only the choicest botanical 

 libraries of today are able to catalogue a set 

 of them; and they were very helpful to the 

 young Linnaeus. This famous German, as a 

 boy, and before his college days, rejoiced in 

 the plain everyday Teutonian name of August 

 Bachman. Afterwards as professor of botany 

 at Leipzig, and the author of immortal books 

 of botany in Latin, he assumed the most 

 perfect counterfeit of an ancient classic Latin 

 personal name which I can recall. This 

 August Bachman is known in history and to 

 fame as Augustus Quirinus Rivinus. The 

 name Rivinus was arrived at in the simplest 

 kind of a way; for it is nothing but Bachman 

 the man who dwells by a rivulet or brook 

 translated into Latin. Now just as Rivinus 

 in German Bachman recalls a stream- 

 bank where the Bachman family lived, so 

 those forebears of Linnaeus who, on rising to 

 the rank of gentry, took the Grseco-Latin 

 name Tiliander, chose that improved appella- 



