> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 25](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33120156) of TL-2 Vol. I > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/110-1) LSID 110-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q465898) QID Q465898 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] > [!example] See also [[Aiton, William (Suppl.)|second entry]] for this author ### Author Aiton, William (1731-1793), British gardener and botanist, Royal Gardener at Kew. **Abbreviated name**: *Aiton* \[standard form in IPNI: *Aiton*\] #### Herbarium and types Almost all types of both editions of the "Hortus kewensis" are in the Banksian herbarium ([[Collection BM|BM]]). The botanical descriptions were not made by the Aitons, but by Solander, Dryander and Robert Brown, based on material from Kew. Some of the new taxa described in the first edition originated from L'Héritier (so indicated). The types of those taxa are in the L'Héritier herbarium at Genève ([[Collection G|G]]-DC). *Ref*.: IH 2: 29. - Anon., Hist. Coll. BMNH 129. 1904. #### Bibliography and biography AG; Barnhart 1: 24; BB p. 3; BM 1: 22; Bossert p. 5; Dawson p. 9; DNB 1: 207; Frank p. 2; IF p. 675; Jackson p. 412; Kew 1: 28; Langman p. 70; Moebius p. 421; MW p. 3; PR 78; Zander p. 590. - Smith, Rees Cycl. 1. 1819. - A.J.L.J., Dict. Sci. méd. Biogr. méd. 1: 81. 1820. - Hemsley, J. Kew Guild 2: 87-90. 1902 (portr.) - Milner, Cat. portr. Kew. 2. 1906. - Anon., Bull. misc. Inf. Kew 1910: 306-308. - Hadfield, Pioneers in Gardening 87-88. 1951. - Ewan, Proc. Amer, philos. Soc. 103(6): 810. 1959 (1961). - Stearn, Cat. Hunt Libr. 2(1): cvii-cviii. 1961. - Coats, Huntia 2: 185-186. 1965 (portr.) - J. Britten, J. Bot. 35: 481-485. 1897, 50 (suppl. 3): 1-16. 1912. - Taylor, DSB 1: 88-89. 1970. - Stafleu, Linnaeus and the Linnaeans 231, 236-238. 1971. - Stafleu, *in* Daniels and Stafleu, Taxon 21: 26. 1972 (portr.) #### Eponymy *Aitonia* Thunberg (1780). – *Note: Aytonia* J. R. Forster and J. G. A. Forster (1776) is dedicated to John Ayton, hortulanus of Kew. ### Publications ##### n.72. Hortus kewensis **Title** *Hortus kewensis*; or, a catalogue of the plants cultivated in the Royal botanic garden at Kew. London (George Nicol) 1789, 3 vols. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Hort. kew.* **Notes** 1: \[i\]-xxx, \[1\]-496, *pl. 1-6*. 7 Aug-1 Oct 1789, 2: \[i\], \[1\]-460, *pl. 7-10*. 7 Aug-1 Oct 1789, 3: \[i\], \[1\]-547, *pl. 11-12*. \[13\]. 7 Aug-1 Oct 1789. The botanical descriptions in vols. 1 and 2 are mainly by Solander (who died in 1782), edited and amended by J. C. Dryander; those in vol. 3 mainly by Dryander. Krok lists the new species described by each of these authors. The original drawings for the thirteen copper engravings (by Franz Bauer, Ehret, J. F. Müller, Nodder and J. Sowerby) are at BM. *Copy*: U. *Ref*.: BM 1: 22; DU 5; Henrey 413; KR p. 144 (Dryander), 656-657 (Solander); NI 9; Plesch p. 124; Kew 1: 28; MW p. 3; Langman p. 70; PR 78; RS p. 71-72; ST p. 53-54; IDC 430. - Anon., London Med. J. 10: 427. 1789. - Anon., Analytical Rev. 5: 318-320. 1790 \[rev. dated Nov 1789\]. - Anon., Philos. Trans. 80(2): 587. 1790 \[rd. by library 5 Nov 1789\]. - Anon., Monthly Rev. ser. 2. 1: 44-51. Jan 1790. - Anon., Critical Rev. 69: 261-265. Mar 1790. - Britten, J. Bot. 35: 481-485. 1897, 50 (suppl. 3): 1-16. 1912. - Kronfeld, Beih. Bot. Centralbl. 38(2): 147, 159. 1921; cf. also J. Bot. 61: 290. 1923. - Steenis-Kruseman, Fl. males. Bull. 16: 821. 1961. - Stafleu, Linneaus and the Linnaeans 232. 1971.