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Francis Maitland Balfour
British biologist (1851–1882)
Details
- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 10 November 1851
- Died
- 19 July 1882
- Place of birth
- Edinburgh
- Place of death
- Aiguille Blanche de Peuterey, Mont Blanc
- Sex or gender
- male
- Family name
- Balfour
- Father
- James Maitland Balfour
- Sibling
- Eleanor Mildred Sidgwick, Arthur Balfour, Alice Blanche Balfour, Eustace Balfour, Evelyn Strutt, Baroness Rayleigh of Terling Place, Gerald Balfour, 2nd Earl of Balfour
- Field of work
- zoology, biology, embryology, physiology
- Occupation
- zoologist, mountaineer, physician, embryologist, teacher, physiologist, biologist
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- cause of death
- mountaineering accident
- described by source
- Svensk uppslagsbok, Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1969–1978), Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Dictionary of National Biography, 1885–1900, Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947), The Nuttall Encyclopædia, The New Student's Reference Work
- doctoral student
- William Bateson, Adam Sedgwick
- educated at
- Trinity College, Harrow School
- employer
- University of Cambridge
- languages spoken, written or signed
- English
- member of
- Royal Society
- sport
- mountaineering
- writing language
- English
Connected on Wikidata
Author of
- The elements of embryology
- The works of Francis Maitland Balfour ..
- Traité d'embryologie et d'organogénie comparées
- A treatise on comparative embryology
- The works of Francis Maitland Balfour
- Treatise on comparative embryology
- The elements of Embryology, &c. Pt. 1
- A monograph on the development of elasmobranch fishes
- Éléments d'embryologie
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