Edward Hamilton Aitken was born on August 16, 1851, in Satara, India, the son of the Rev. James Aitken (1815-), a missionary of the Free Church of Scotland.

He was a civil servant and writer, known for his humorist writings on natural history in India and as a founding member of the Bombay Natural History Society. He was well known to Anglo-Indians by the pen-name of Eha. He received his education from his father in India and graduated from Bombay University with a B.A. and M.A., winning the Homejee Cursetjee prize with a poem in 1880. From 1870 to 1876, he taught Latin at the Deccan College in Pune. He was also proficient in Greek and was known to be able to read the Greek Testament without the aid of a dictionary. Although he grew up in India, he only visited England for the first time later in life, finding the weather of Edinburgh severe. In 1876, he joined the Customs and Salt Department of the Government of Bombay and served in Kharaghoda (referred to as Dustypore in The Tribes on my Frontier), Uran, Uttara Kannada and Goa Frontier, Ratnagiri, and Bombay itself. In 1903, he was appointed Chief Collector of Customs and Salt Revenue at Karachi, and in 1905, he was made Superintendent in charge of the District Gazetteer of Sind. He retired from the service in August 1906 and moved to Edinburgh. He explored the jungles on the hills near Vihar around Bombay and wrote "The Naturalist on the Prowl" (1894). He also published the books "The Common Birds of Bombay" (1900) and "A Naturalist on the Prowl or in the Jungle" (1923).

In 1883, he married Isabella Mary Blake (1858-1924). He died on April 11, 1909, in Edinburgh, Scotland.

She is a poet and the daughter of the Canadian composer and flautist Robert Aitken (1939-).

Robert Morris Aitken was born on August 28, 1939, in Kentville, Nova Scotia.

He is a Canadian composer and flautist. He began his career as a teenager playing in many orchestras, notably becoming the youngest principal flautist in the history of the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra in 1958 at the age of 19. He studied flute with Nicolas Fiore, Marcel Moyse, Jean-Pierre Rampal, Andre Jaunet, Severino Gazzelloni, and Hubert Barwahser. In 1971, he abandoned ensemble performance to pursue a highly successful solo career. He has appeared as a soloist with major symphony orchestras throughout North America, Europe and Asia and has made over 40 commercial recordings. Aitken has played with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, CBC Symphony Orchestra, and Toronto Symphony Orchestra. He is the Co-Artistic Director of New Music Concerts in Toronto. He has also done classical and contemporary music (along with eminent harpist Erica Goodman) on BIS Records. From 1988 to 2004, Aitken was a member of the music faculty at the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik in Freiburg, Germany. He is also a former faculty member of the University of Toronto (1960–1975) and the Shawinigan Summer School of Arts (1972–1982) and was director of advanced studies in music at the Banff Centre from 1985 to 1989. In 1993, Aitken was made a Member of the Order of Canada, and in 2003, he received National Flute Association Lifetime Achievement Award.

A.J. Johnson and Co. was a publishing company. Alvin Jewett Johnson (1827-1884) was an American map publisher. In 1860, the Johnson firm published its first significant work, the Johnson’s New Illustrated (Steel Plate) Family Atlas. In addition to the Family Atlas, Johnson issued numerous wall maps, pocket maps, and, in the 1880s, the Cyclopedia. Johnson frequently updated his western atlas maps, and on occasion, more than one update appeared in a single year. Johnson continued to publish the Family Atlas until 1887. In 1879, Johnson brought his son into the business, and their publications have the imprint “A.J. Johnson and Son” and, later, “A.J. Johnson and Co.” Johnson’s son continued the business until it shuttered in 1887.

Cosimo Carlo Ajmone Marsan was born on January 2, 1918, in Cossato Verc, Italy.

He was an American physician. He was chief of the Clinical Neurosciences Branch, National Institute of Neurological and Communicative Disorders and Stroke (1954-1979) and professor of neurology at the University of Miami Medical School. He also was on the faculty of G.W.U. School of Medicine and Health Sciences. Before joining NINCDS, Dr. Ajmone Marsan taught neurophysiology at McGill University and directed a laboratory of neurophysiology at the Montreal Neurological Institute, where he had previously been a Rockefeller Fellow. A graduate of the University of Turin Medical School and later certified by the American Board of Electroencephalographers, he wrote over 100 publications, including two monographs. Throughout his career, Dr. Ajmone Marsan was active in several professional organizations and served as their president. He was the director of symposia of the UNESCO International Brain Research Organization. Dr. Ajmone Marsan was a leading figure in epilepsy research and care for over half a century. His contributions to both clinical and basic science aspects of epilepsy have been monumental. Dr. Ajmone Marsan has trained numerous students from all over the world into distinguished epileptologists.

He died on August 31, 2004, in Biella, Italy.