> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 55](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33264744) of TL-2 Suppl. I > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/108-1) LSID 108-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1680330) QID Q1680330 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] > [!example] See also [[Aitchison, James Edward Tierney|first entry]] for this author ### Author \* Aitchison, James Edward Tierney (1836-1898), British botanist and physician, M.D. and L.R.C.P. Edinburgh 1856, entered the service of the East India Company, first as assistant surgeon in the Bengal Medical Service 1858, ultimately as brigade surgeon until 1888; collected in India 1861-1872, Ireland 1867-1869, Afghanistan 1879-1885. **Abbreviated name**: *Aitch.* \[standard form in IPNI: *Aitch.*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection K|K]] (largest set). – Further material in [[Collection B|B]], [[Collection BM|BM]], [[Collection BP|BP]], [[Collection CAL|CAL]], [[Collection CGE|CGE]], [[Collection DD|DD]], [[Collection E|E]], [[Collection FI|FI]](Webb), [[Collection HH (sensu TL-2)|HH]], [[Collection KW|KW]], [[Collection LE|LE]], [[Collection MANCH|MANCH]], [[Collection P|P]], [[Collection PH|PH]], [[Collection S|S]]. – Botanical mss. at [[Collection K|K]], see also Bridson 269.37. #### Bibliography and biography AG 6(2): 738; Barnhart 1: 24; BB p. 3; BM 1: 21; Bossert p. 5; CSP 7: 16, 9: 21, 13: 42; IH 1 (ed. 6): 355, 2: 29; Jackson 389; Kew 1: 28; LS 780; TL-2/1: 24-25. #### Biofile - Anon., J. Bot. 36: 463. 1898 (brief obit.); Nat. Nov. 20: 564. 1898 (notice of death); Kew Bull. 1898: 310-311 (obit., details on his collections and explorations); Bot. Not. 1899: 48; The manuscript papers of British scientists 1600-1940: p. 2 (no.9). 1982. - Bridson, G.D.R. et al., Nat. hist. mss. res. Brit. Isl. 269.37. 1980. - Britten, J. and G.S. Boulger, J. Bot. 41: 343. 1903 (obit.). - Jackson, B.D., Kew Bull. 1901: 2 (list of collections rd.). - Kent, D.H., Index locat. herb. Brit. vasc. pl. 39. 1957 (herb. material at K). - Koeie, M. Symb. Afgh. 1: 7-8. 1954 (survey of A's Afgh. colls.: 800, Jun-Jul 1885). - Masters, M.T., Gard. Chron. 1898(2): 274 (obit. note). - Murray, G., Hist. Coll. Nat. Hist. Depts. Brit. Mus. 1: 129. 1904 (lists herb. material at BM). - Rix, M., The art of the botanist 199. 1981. - Rutherford Hill, J., Trans. Proc. Bot. Soc. Edinburgh 21: 224-229. Dec 1898 (obit.). - Stewart, R.R., Pakistan J. For. 17: 339. 1967 (on coll. in Pakistan). ### Publications ##### n.18.982. A catalogue of the plants of the Punjab and Sindh **Title** *A catalogue of the plants of the Punjab and Sindh*... 1869, TL-2/70. – Also available on microfiche IDC 1052. **Notes** ##### n.18.983. The botany of the Afghan delimitation commission **Title** *The botany of the Afghan delimitation commission*... London (printed for the Linnean Society...) 1888. Qu. **Abbreviated title**: *Bot. Afghan delim. comm.* **Notes** *Publ*.: Apr 1888 (cover-t.p. so dated; Bot. Jahrb. 25 Apr 1890), cover-t.p., p. \[1\]-139, *pl. 1-48* (uncol. liths. by M. Smith), maps 1-2. *Copies*: G, MO (incompl.), U. – Issued as Trans. Linn. Soc., Bot. 3(1). 1888. *Ref*.: Franchet, A., Bull. Soc. bot. France 35(Bibl.): 190-191. 1888 (rev.). ##### n.18.984. Notes on the products of Western Afghanistan **Title** *Notes on the products of Western Afghanistan* and of North-Eastern Persia... Edinburgh (printed by Neill and Company) 1890. Oct. (in 4-5). **Abbreviated title**: *Notes prod. W. Afghanistan*. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1890, cover-t.p., p. \[i\], \[1\]-228. *Copies*: G. NY. – Also issued in Trans. bot. Soc. Edinburgh 18: 1-228. 1890 (but volume 18 as a whole published in 1891).