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at Upsala in 1660, and died without issue 1697. His 

 brother, Suen Tiliander, 1 studied at Upsala 1678. He 

 lived as domestic chaplain to Count H. Horn at Bremen, 

 and died rector of Pjetteryd in 1712.' [Our little 

 Linnaeus may have remembered him, his great-uncle. 

 Suen's sister Ingrid married Carl's grandfather.] ' He 

 was a peculiar lover of gardening and natural history. 

 His sons were Abel Tiliander, who succeeded him as 

 pastor, and was drowned in a well in 1724, and Nicholas, 

 chaplain to a regiment. The latter left issue, Carl 

 Tiliander, born 1701, who studied at Lund 1720, became 

 adjunct teacher of Philosophy there in 1729, and adjunct 

 teacher of Divinity there 1730.' 



Doubtless this Carl, who was six years older than 

 our Carl Linnaeus, was held up as a model to his younger 

 cousin, who was reckoned among the dunces. He was 

 high in Lund University at the time Linnaeus was 

 entered there as a student, with a bad character from 

 his grammar school. We do not hear of the two having 

 had much communication. I fear me Carl Tiliander 

 was a prig, and ashamed of his country cousin. Yet the 

 Tilianders seem to have been the pedagogues of the 

 Linnaeus family for a long while, for Suen, the pastor 

 of Pjetteryd, took our hero's father, Nils Linnaeus, into 

 his house ' to educate with his children, and, having a 

 good garden, he gave him also a taste for horticulture ' ; 

 and a certain John Tiliander, a severe man, which is all 

 we can find out about him, was the earliest tutor of the 

 1 Linnaeus's maternal uncle.- -SiR J. E. SMITH. 



