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### Author
Ainslie, \[Sir\] Whitelaw (1767-1836), British physician and medical botanist, M.D. Leiden 1786, knighted 1837, surgeon in the East Indian Company 1788-1815, asst. surgeon until ca. 1789, garrison surgeon Chingleput, India ca. 1789, surgeon Ganjam 1794, superintending surgeon 1810, id. Madras army, southern div. 1814.
**Abbreviated name**: *W. Ainslie* \[standard form in IPNI: *Ainslie*\]
#### Herbarium and types
Unknown.
#### Bibliography and biography
Barnhart 1: 24 (b. 17 Feb 1767, d. 29 Apr 1836); BB p. 3; BM 1: 21; Desmond p. 5; DNB 1: 1690; Jackson p. 386; Plesch p. 123-124; PR 77, ed. 1: 108; Rehder 5(index): 7; Sotheby no. 5.
#### Biofile
- Baillon, H.E., Dict. bot. 1: 81-82. 1876.
#### Eponymy
*Ainsliaea* A.P. de Candolle (1838), *Ainsliea* O. Kuntze (1891), see ING 1: 43.
### Publications
##### n.18.978. Materia medica of Hindoostan
**Title**
*Materia medica of Hindoostan*, and artisan's and agriculturist's nomenclature,... Madras (printed at the Government Press) 1813. Qu.
**Abbreviated title**: *Mat. med. Hindoostan*.
**Notes**
*Publ*.: 1813, p. \[i\*-v\*\], \[i\]-ii, \[i\*\*-ii\*\*\], \[1\]-301, i-xlviii. *Copy*: NY.
##### n.18.979. Materia indica
**Title**
*Materia indica*; or, some account of those articles which are employed by the Hindoos, and other eastern nations, in their medicine, arts, and agriculture; comprising also formulae, with practical observations, names of diseases in various eastern languages, and a copious list of oriental books immediately connected with general science, & c. & c.... London (printed for Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green,...) 1826. 2 vols. Oct. (in halfsheets).
**Abbreviated title**: *Materia ind.*
**Notes**
*1*: 1826, p. \[iii\]-xxiv, \[1\]-654.
*2*: 1826, p. \[i\]-xxxix, \[1\]-604.
*Copies*: G, NY, U; IDC 918.
*Note*: For an earlier treatment see above, *Mat. med. Hindoostan* 1813.