1820 joined the Institution of Civil Engineers. He was highly esteemed as a man of sound judgement and wide knowledge. Aikin never married, and died at Hoxton in London in 1854. Publications Journal of a Tour through North Wales and Part of Shropshire with Observations in Mineralogy and Other Branches of Natural History (London, 1797) A Manual of Mineralogy (1814; ed. 2, 1815) A Dictionary of Chemistry and Mineralogy (with his brother C. R. Aikin), 2 vols. (London, 1807, 1814). For Rees's Cyclopædia he wrote articles about chemistry, geology and mineralogy, but the topics are not known. References External links 1773 births 1854 deaths English mineralogists 19th-century British chemists People from Warrington Fellows of the Linnean Society of London People from Hoxton English Unitarians Anna Laetitia Barbauld 18th-century English writers 18th-century English male writers 19th-century English writers