Isaac Bayley Balfour
1853–1922
Botanist. BSc, Edinburgh, 1873; MD 1883. Botanist and geologist on an expedition to Rodriguez Island to observe the transit of Venus, 1874. Regius professor of botany, Glasgow, 1879; Sherardian Professor of botany, Oxford, 1884. Founded Annals of Botany in 1887. Professor of botany, Edinburgh, 1888. FRS 1884. Knighted, 1920.
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Bibliography
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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