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MEMOIR OF LINNjEUSo 
self, or under his superintendence, and published as an 
appendix to the work above mentioned. 
The diary is a curious and interesting document, 
and owes its preservation to Dr Maton ,• it was con- 
veyed in the year 1779, with a variety of manuscripts, 
to be printed in England, by M. Fredenheim, son of 
Dr Meimandcr, Archbishop of Upsala, to Robert Gor- 
don, Esq. merchant at Cadiz. In consequence of Mr 
Gordon’s death, the publication of them was not 
accomplished, and they were disposed of to Dr Maton, 
who had the diary translated and printed in his edition 
of Dr Fulteney’s Biography of Linnseus. The manu- 
script was written in a folio book containing about 
eighty pages, entitled “ Vita Caroli Linnaei.” The 
greater part of it is in the handwriting of his various 
pupils, of whom that of Dr Lindwall is most conspi- 
cuous, and it often runs from the first to third person, 
as if the different writers had not attended to what had 
been set down by their predecessor. 
From this diary we learn that Nils Linnteus, the 
father of the naturalist, born in 1674, was the son of 
a peasant named Ingemar Bengtsson, in Smaland, and 
married Ingrid Ingemarsdotter, sister of Sven Tilian- 
der,* pastor of Pietteryd. The latter took Nils Lin- 
nseus into his house, educated him along with his own 
* Sven Tiliander, and the ancestors of the naturalist, took their 
surnames of Lindelius, Tiliander, and Linnaeus, from a large linden 
or lime-tree, standing on the farm where he was born. This ori- 
gin of surnames, taken from natural objects, is not uncommon in 
bweden. 
