Francis Maitland Balfour

1851 – 1882

Biologist from Scotland, brother of the 1. Earl of Balfour; one of the fathers of embryology; died early while mountain climbing.

• A monograph on the development of elasmobranch fishes
• A treatise on comparative embryology
• A Treatise on comparative embryology v.2, 1881
• Handbuch der vergleichenden Embryologie
• The works of Francis Maitland Balfour ..
• Traité d'embryologie et d'organogénie comparées
• Works
• Report of a public meeting held at Cambridge 21 October, 1882
• The anatomy and development of Peripatus capensis