| Authorised form of name | Aitchison; James Edward Tierney (1835 - 1898) |
| Dates | 1835 - 1898 |
| Nationality | British |
| Place of birth | Neemuch [ie Nimach], Madhya Pradesh, Bharat, India |
| Date of birth | 28 October 1835 |
| Place of death | Kew, Surrey |
| Date of death | 30 September 1898 |
| Occupation | Surgeon |
| Research field | Botany |
| Activity | Education:
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
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| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 07/06/1883 |
| Source | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc 1898-1899 vol 64 pp xi-xiii signed by W B H |
| Virtual International Authority File | http://viaf.org/viaf/279149294293780521459 |
| Code | NA1608 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| EC/1883/02 | Aitchison, James Edward Tierney: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| NLB/4/957 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Dr James Edward Tierney Aitchison, Fellow of the Royal Society, Poste Restante, Florence | 8 December 1890 |
| NLB/3/971 | Copy letter from T E Jones, to Messrs Harrison & Sons | 27 November 1889 |
| NLB/6/890 | Copy letter from Theodore E James, to [Harrison & Sons] | [July 1892] |
| NLB/13/661 | Copy letter from an unknown correspondent, to Messrs Harrison & Sons | 28 October 1896 |
| NLB/17/288 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Messrs Harrison & Sons | 3 October 1898 |
| NLB/3/916 | List of corrections in the addresses of Royal Society Fellows | 8 November 1889 |
| MC/12/347 | Letter from J E T [James Edward Tierney] Aitchison, Simla, to G G [George Gabriel] Stokes, Secretary of the Royal Society, London | 12 July 1883 |
| MC/12/350 | Letter from J E T [James Edward Tierney] Aitchison, Simla, India, to the Secretary of the Royal Society, London | 17 August 1883 |
| MC/13/91 | Letter from Horace Walpole, India Office, to the Royal Society, Burlington House | 5 September 1884 |
| MC/13 | Volume 13 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society | 1884 |