> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 89](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33264816) of TL-2 Suppl. I > Author links: [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1063554) QID Q1063554 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Alston, Charles (1685-1760), Scottish botanist and physician, studied at the University of Glasgow 1700-1703, principal servant to the Duchess of Hamilton 1706-1715, King's botanist, professor of botany and materia medica and overseer of the Royal Garden (Edinburgh) 1716-1760, at Leiden with Boerhaave 1718-1719, Dr. med. Glasgow 1719, Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians 1725, College professor at the University of Edinburgh 1738. **Abbreviated name**: *C. Alston* #### Herbarium and types Unknown, manuscripts at the Royal Society, London. #### Bibliography and biography Backer 19 (b. 1685); Barnhart 1: 45; BB p. 5; BM 1: 33; Desmond p. 10 (b. Eddlewood, Laviarkshire 24 Oct 1683 \[but see Fletcher 1970\], d. 22 Nov 1760, Edinburgh); DNB 1: 346; Dryander 3: 20, 91, 101, 392; Frank 3 (Anh.): 4; Jackson p. 32, 411; PR 117-119, ed. 1: 169-171; Rehder 1: 52, 83, 523, 3: 241; SO 255, 263; Tucker 1: 35. #### Biofile - Anon., Comm. med. lips. 11: 556-558. (vita, obitus et scripta Caroli Alston, n.v. fide PR 1: 356); The manuscript papers of British Scientists 1600-1940. p. 2. 1982. - Berkeley, E. and D. Smith Berkeley, Dr. John Mitchell 3, 8, 9-12, 14, 16, 21, 26-28, 30, 35. 1974; The life and travels of John Bartram 53, 157, 175. s.d. - Bridson, G.D.R. et al., Nat. hist. mss. res. Brit. Isl. 138.14, 146.19, 271.4. 1980. - Davis, R.B., Intellectual life in the Colonial South 1585-1763. 1: 851, 856, 861. 1978. - Fletcher, H.R. and W.H. Brown, Roy. Bot. Gard. Edinburgh 1670-1970, p. 37-45. 1970 (major source). - Fournier, E., *in* H.E. Baillon, Dict. bot. 1: 125. 1876. - Haller, A. von, Bibl. bot. 2: 417. 1772. - Kastner, J., A world of naturalists 68, 69, 84. s.d. - Mabberley, D.J., Jupiter botanicus 19. 1985. - Oliver, F.W., Makers Brit. Bot. 283-284. 1913. - Pulteney, R., Hist. biogr. sketch. progr. bot. England 2: 9-16. 1790. - Rothmaler, W., Fedde Rep. 53(1): 28. 1944 (date of Tirocinium: pre-linnaean). - Smith, J.E., Corr. Linnaeus 1: 510. 1821. - Turner, D., Extr. Lit. Sci. Corr. Richard Richardson 275. 1835 (fide Desmond). - Verdoorn, F., Chron. bot. 1: 18. 1935 (b. 1685). ### Publications ##### n.19.118. Index plantarum **Title** *Index plantarum* praecipue officinalium, quae, *in horto medico Edinburgensi*, demonstrantur... Edinburgi; (Apud W. Sands, A. Brymer, A. Murray & J. Cochran) 1740. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Ind. pl. hort. Edinb.* **Notes** *Publ*.: 1740, p. \[i\]-xxv, \[xxvi\], \[1\]-66. *Copy*: NY. – SO 255, TL-2/4710. On p. 1-22: Linnaeus, *Fund. bot.* ##### n.19.119. Index medicamentorum **Title** *Index medicamentorum* simplicium triplex... Edinburgi (Typis W. Sands, A. Murray & J. Cochran...) 1752. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Index medicament.* **Notes** *Publ*.: 1752, p. \[i\]-xi, \[xii\], \[1\]-172. *Copy*: NSUB. ##### n.19.120. Tirocinium botanicum edinburgense **Title** *Tirocinium botanicum edinburgense* – Edinburgi (Typis W. Sands,...) 1753. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Tiron. bot. Edinb.* **Notes** *Publ*.: Jan-Apr 1753 (fide Rothmaler 1944; pre-linnean), p. \[i-iv\], \[1\]-116, \[1\]-120. *Copies*: B-S, G, MO, NY. – On p. 83-116 reprint of Linnaeus, *Fund. bot.* see SO 263 and TL-2/4710. – In fact a later edition of *Ind. pl. hort. Edinb.* 1740. *English translation*: A dissertation on botany... Translated from the Latin by a physician. London (printed for Benj. Dod,...) 1754. Oct., p. \[i\]-ix, \[1\]-136. *Copy*: B-S. – Translation of the *Tirocinium* p. \[1\]-82 with some revisions and additions (fide Henry 421).