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Authorised form of nameAitchison; James Edward Tierney (1835 - 1898)
Dates1835 - 1898
NationalityBritish
Place of birthNeemuch [ie Nimach], Madhya Pradesh, Bharat, India
Date of birth28 October 1835
Place of deathKew, Surrey
Date of death30 September 1898
OccupationSurgeon
Research fieldBotany
ActivityEducation:
Edinburgh University. MD
Career:
Assistant Surgeon, HEIC (1858); collected plants of the Punjab and Sind; served in Afghanistan and collected specimens; Naturalist to the Afghan delimitation commission; Surgeon Major (by 1882); retired at rank of Brigade Surgeon (1888); died of heart problems
Honours:
CIE 1883
Memberships:
FRCS; FRSE; FLS
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election07/06/1883
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc 1898-1899 vol 64 pp xi-xiii signed by W B H
Virtual International Authority Filehttp://viaf.org/viaf/279149294293780521459
CodeNA1608
Archives associated with this Fellow
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EC/1883/02Aitchison, James Edward Tierney: certificate of election to the Royal Society
NLB/4/957Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Dr James Edward Tierney Aitchison, Fellow of the Royal Society, Poste Restante, Florence8 December 1890
NLB/3/971Copy letter from T E Jones, to Messrs Harrison & Sons27 November 1889
NLB/6/890Copy letter from Theodore E James, to [Harrison & Sons][July 1892]
NLB/13/661Copy letter from an unknown correspondent, to Messrs Harrison & Sons28 October 1896
NLB/17/288Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Messrs Harrison & Sons3 October 1898
NLB/3/916List of corrections in the addresses of Royal Society Fellows8 November 1889
MC/12/347Letter from J E T [James Edward Tierney] Aitchison, Simla, to G G [George Gabriel] Stokes, Secretary of the Royal Society, London12 July 1883
MC/12/350Letter from J E T [James Edward Tierney] Aitchison, Simla, India, to the Secretary of the Royal Society, London17 August 1883
MC/13/91Letter from Horace Walpole, India Office, to the Royal Society, Burlington House5 September 1884
MC/13Volume 13 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1884
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