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somewhat to do with the originating of the 

 family name Linnaeus. But for their influ- 

 ence in this direction it is probable that 

 their grandnephew, then unborn, distinguish- 

 ing himself as he did, would have been 

 known in history not as Carolus Linnaeus 

 but by some other name. That both these 

 granduncles of Linnseus were Greek scholars 

 seems attested by the fact that, in assum- 

 ing a new family name, after the mediaeval 

 usage of those who arose from the humble 

 estate of peasantry to the aristocracy of 

 learning, they chose the Greek name 

 Tiliander. They were Karl and Sven 

 Tiliander. In their boyhood they had been 

 known simply as Karl and Sven Svenson, and 

 if they had remained uneducated, and in 

 the same lowly and simple estate in which 

 they were born, they would have been known 

 by those names to the end of their lives. 

 Karl Tiliander rose to wealth and station, 

 adopted a coat of arms, in a word, was an 

 aristocrat, but died childless. His grand- 

 nephew, however, born ten years after his 

 death, was named in his honor. In fact, 

 Karl Tiliander and Karl Linnaeus are, in 

 meaning, the same name precisely. Now 

 the other greatuncle, Sven Tiliander, was a 



