via Sakhalin, Kamchatka, Sitka, Hawaii, Tahiti, around the Cape Horn and through the Atlantic Ocean back to the baltic seaport Kronstadt, now a suburb of St. Petersburg. He drew the following conclusion: "… Add the huge numbers of sea lions, sea bears and walrusses, which you may encounter in various parts of the sea and you will have to confess that it is due to the complete annihilation of these creatures in the Baltic Sea to which we owe the deadly calmness that the view of the sea induces in us. We have so to speak only the splendid frame left of the gigantic picture that our creator has set before our eyes." With this he formulates an indeed very modern view and concern that scientists formulated distinctly during the last twenty years. Plants named by him More than 20 species were named after him. The abbreviation Tiling indicates that Heinrich Sylvester Theodor Tiling has described this species for the first time. Brassicaceae Arabis tilingii (Regel) Berkut. Borodinia tilingii (Regel) Berkut. Braya tilingii Regel Hesperis tilingii Kuntze Sisymbrium tilingii E.Fourn. Smelowskia tilingii (Regel) Vorosch. Caryophyllaceae Silene ajanensis (Regel & Tiling) Vorosch. Sofianthe ajanensis (Regel & Tiling) Tzvelev Stellaria sibirica (Regel & Tiling) Schischk. Compositae / Asteraceae Erigeron tilingii Vorosch. Hieracium tilingii Üksip Convallariaceae Streptopus tilingii (Regel) Grey Streptopus ajanensis Tiling ex Maxim. Gentianaceae Swertia perennis L. subsp. stenopetala (Regel & Tiling) Vorosch. Swertia stenopetala (Regel & Tiling) Pissjaukova Leguminosae / Fabaceae Oxytropis tilingii Bunge Spiesia tilingii Kuntze Ranunculaceae Pulsatilla ajanensis Regel & Tiling Thalictrum aquilegiifolium L. var. sibiricum Regel & Tiling Trollius ochotensis Tiling Rosaceae Padus avium Mill. var. pubescens (Regel & Tiling) T.C.Ku & B.M.Barthol. Potentilla fragiformis Willd. var. villosa (Pall. ex Pursh) Regel & Tiling Potentilla nivea L. var. villosa (Pall. ex Pursh) Regel & Tiling Sieversia selinifolia Fisch. ex Regel & Tiling Sorbaria kirilowi (Regel & Tiling) Maxim. Spiraea kirilowii Regel & Tiling Saxifragaceae Saxifraga tilingiana Regel & Tiling Umbelliferae / Apiaceae Tilingia Regel & Tiling Tilingia ajanensis Regel & Tiling Further reading References Sources External links https://web.archive.org/web/20080610191305/http://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/dms/load/img/ 19th-century botanists from the Russian Empire People of Russian America 1818 births 1871 deaths Botanists active in California Physicians from Alaska Physicians from California People from Livonia People from Nevada City, California People from Sitka, Alaska 19th-century American physicians 19th-century German physicians 19th-century German botanists 19th-century American botanists