70 THROUGH THE FIELDS WITH LINNAEUS 



doubly impressive as a stately relic of tlie dawn of 

 Christianity in Sweden. 



Leaving the cathedral, of which one watcher by the 

 coffin was the only living tenant, Carl hastened through 

 the elm groves on his way to the university. In his 

 hurry he did not perceive the approach of a student 

 who was diligently absorbed in a book. They jostled 

 each other, and Linneeus recognised Carl Tiliander. 

 To see his cousin and to claim his friendship was one 

 action with our Carl ; but Tiliander was cool and did 

 not respond to Linnaeus's overtures. The sight of the 

 unfortunate certificate was sufficient to make the rising 

 young student, who was one day to be a professor in the 

 university, pause before he proclaimed his kindred with 

 one who seemed at best an unpromising young scamp. 

 He would not help him other than by reading him a 

 lecture for his good, and Carl never relished such. 



We are nowhere told what was Carl Tiliander's 

 relationship to the John Tiliander who was Linnaeus's 

 early tutor, but we may be quite sure that whatever 

 Carl had heard from John about the boy was bad. 

 This Carl was an eminently respectable youth a bit of 

 a Pharisee, I fear. He was not, as has been supposed, 

 a professor at Lund on Linngeus's arrival in 1727 ; he 

 was then only a distinguished student : he became ad- 

 junct teacher in Philosophy two years later in 1729. 

 This Carl was a celebrated man in his family ; he was 

 rector of Jonkoping in 1741 and later a Doctor of 

 Divinity. He was twice delegated as representative to 



