> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 53](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33264742) of TL-2 Suppl. I > Author links: [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2712004) QID Q2712004 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Aikin, John (1747-1822), British (Leicester-born) physician and naturalist; studied medicine in London and Edinburgh, practising in various places, M.D. Leiden 1784, practising in Yarmouth 1784-1792, removed to London 1797, abandoned his medical profession for health reasons 1797, retired to Stoke Newington (London). **Abbreviated name**: *Aikin* #### Herbarium and types Unknown. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 1: 23; BB p. 3; BM 1: 1, 21; CSP 1: 28; Desmond p. 4 (b. 15 Jan 1747, d. 7 Dec 1827, further biogr. refs.); DNB 1: 185-186; Jackson p. 244; PR ed. 1: 106; Rehder 1: 393; Tucker 1: 31. #### Biofile - Bridson, G.D.R. et al., Nat. hist. mss. res. Brit. Isl. 5.36. 1980. - Britten, J., J. Bot. 42: 294. 1904. - Dallman, A.A. and M.H. Wood, Trans. Liverpool Bot. Soc. 1: 56. 1909 (biogr. info., b. Kilworth Harcourt, Leicester 15 Jan 1747, d. Stoke Newington (London), Middlesex 7 Dec 1822). - Fox, R.H., Dr. John Fothergill 131, 135, 154. 1919. - Freeman, R.B., Brit. nat. hist. books 1495-1900. 26. 1980. - Horwood, A.R. and C.W.F. Noel, Fl. Leicestershire cxcviii. 1933. - Lisney, A.A., Bibl. Brit. Lepidopt. 1688-1799, p. 214-221 (portr., bibl.) - Walter, J.H.F., Trans. Norfolk Norwich naturalists Soc. 9(5): 685-687. 1914. #### Eponymy *Aikinia* Wallich 1832 [^1] was named after Arthur Aikin (1773-1854), British chemist. This name was a later synonym of *Ratzeburgia* Kunth. – Robert Brown gave then the name *Aikinia* to another plant for John Aikin on 15 Aug 1832, see ING 1: 43. ### Publications ##### n.18.975. The woodland companion **Title** *The woodland companion*: or a brief description of British trees. With some account of their uses... compiled by the author of Evenings at home... London (Printed for J.Johnson, ...by Taylor and Wilks,...). 1802. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Woodland comp.* **Notes** *Ed. 1*: 1802, p. \[i-iv\], \[1\]-92, *pl. 1-28. Copies*: L, MO. – Published anonymously except that the "advertisement" on p. \[iii\] is signed "J.A.". Later editions identified. *Ed. 2*: 1815, p. \[i-iv\], \[1\]-92, *pl. 1-28. Copies*: MO, NY. – "Second edition, corrected". *Ed. 3*: 1820, p. \[i-iv\], \[1\]-92, *pl. 1-28. Copy*: HH. [^1]: "*Aikinia* R.Br. 1832 (Gesneriaceae) \[is dedicated to\] Arthur Aikin (17731854), British chemist, botanist, mineralogist, member of Society of Arts London (Brown, 1832: 65, 66). First Wallich (1832: 46) had named for him *Aikinia elegans* in the Poaceae. Because there had already been the same plant in an earlier genus *Ratzeburgia* Kunth, he asked Brown to name the new genus in the Gesneriaceae after Arthur Aikin, who was a son to John Aikin. *Note*. – *Aikinia* Salisb. ex A.DC. 1830 (Campanulaceae) \[is dedicated to\] Aikin, John (1747–1822), British physician and naturalist (Candolle, 1830: 135)." Burkhardt, L. (2016). About some eponyms in Taxonomic literature (TL-2). _Taxon_, _65_(1), 137–145. [https://doi.org/10.12705/651.9](https://doi.org/10.12705/651.9)