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    John Hutton Balfour FRSE FRS FRCSE FLS MWS (15 September 1808 – 11 February 1884) was a Scottish botanist. Balfour became a Professor of Botany, first...
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  • inner circle Sir Isaac Bayley Balfour (1853–1922), a Scottish botanist and son of John Hutton Balfour John Hutton Balfour (1808–1884), a Scottish botanist...
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    petioles. Flowers are white with 5 petals. The specific epithet honors John Hutton Balfour. The species is often grown in cultivation as an ornamental. "Polyscias...
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  • John Balfour may refer to: John Balfour (courtier), servant of Mary, Queen of Scots John Balfour, 3rd Lord Balfour of Burleigh (died 1688), Scottish lord...
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    Pinus balfouriana (category Taxa named by John Hutton Balfour)
    OCLC 798852130. Chase, J. Smeaton (1911). "Pinus balfouriana (Foxtail-pine, Balfour-pine)". Cone-bearing Trees of the California Mountains. Eytel, Carl (illustrations)...
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    Physostigma (category Taxa named by John Hutton Balfour)
    Physostigma is a genus of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae. It includes five species of erect or climbing herbs and subshrubs native to sub-Saharan...
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    Physostigma venenosum (category Taxa named by John Hutton Balfour)
    Physostigma venenosum, the Calabar bean or ordeal bean, is a leguminous plant, Endemic to tropical Africa, with a seed poisonous to humans. It derives...
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    and her maternal great-great-grandfather was the Scottish botanist John Hutton Balfour. The Swintons are an ancient Scots family whose members can trace...
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    Pinus jeffreyi (category Taxa named by John Hutton Balfour)
    northern Baja California.: 4  It is named in honor of its botanist documenter John Jeffrey. Pinus jeffreyi is a large coniferous evergreen tree, reaching 25...
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    Society of Edinburgh. In 1850 he was attending the botany class of John Hutton Balfour at the University. In 1850 he was appointed lecturer of botany, and...
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  • 1650 to 1654 Sir James Balfour Paul (1846–1931), Scottish heraldist, Lord Lyon King of Arms from 1890 to 1926 John Hutton Balfour (1808–1884), Scottish...
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  • Edinburgh. Its founding members included Prof Edward Forbes, Prof John Hutton Balfour and Dr Richard Parnell. In 1935 the Botanical Society of Edinburgh...
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  • Arthur 1716: Charles Alston 1761: Dr John Hope 1786: Daniel Rutherford MD 1820: Robert Graham MD 1845: John Hutton Balfour MD 1880: Alexander Dickson MD LLD...
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    Cooper, curator George Taylor, director John Hutton Balfour, lived in Inverleith House Isaac Bayley Balfour, linked to site William Evans, born here...
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  • elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, his proposer being John Hutton Balfour. In 1876, the syllabus for the Queen's Colleges in Ireland was altered...
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    elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh his proposer was John Hutton Balfour. The University of Edinburgh awarded him a second honorary doctorate...
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    Xerophyta elegans (category Taxa named by John Hutton Balfour)
    stamens. The seeds are hooked thus enhancing dispersal by animals. Baker, John Gilbert Journal of Botany, British and Foreign 13: 234. 1875 Pax Nat. Pflanzenfam...
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    brother William Thomson, Peter Guthrie Tait, Alexander Crum Brown, and John Hutton Balfour. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of London in June 1877...
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    Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, upon the nomination of John Hutton Balfour. In 1876 he was elected a member of the Aesculapian Club and was...
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    The mountain was named by James Hector in 1859 after Professor John Hutton Balfour, a Scottish botanist and instructor at the University of Edinburgh...
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    the University of Edinburgh from 1888 to 1922. He was the son of John Hutton Balfour, also a botanist, and Marion Spottiswood Bayley, and was born at...
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  • especially Dytiscidae (diving beetles). Balfour-Browne was born at 16 Ebury Street in London to John Hutton Balfour-Browne KC (d.1921) and Caroline Lush...
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  • also joined by John Horne. In 1876, he was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were John Hutton Balfour, Peter Guthrie Tait...
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    elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh his proposer being John Hutton Balfour. His address was then given as Craigrowan, a large villa in Merchiston...
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    friends and family, and the botanists William Jackson Hooker and John Hutton Balfour, as well as about 30 of his students. As a mineralogist he had used...
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    were Peter Guthrie Tait, Philip Kelland, Alexander Crum Brown, and John Hutton Balfour. The next year he published Principles of the Algebra of Logic which...
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    elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, his proposer being John Hutton Balfour. The University of Edinburgh awarded him an honorary doctorate (DD)...
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    Society of Edinburgh his proposer being John Hutton Balfour. In 1867 he succeeded in his presidential role by John Graham MacDonald Burt. He appears to have...
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    elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh his proposer being John Hutton Balfour. In 1862 he endowed the chair of Sanskrit in the University of Edinburgh...
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    John Matthew Patrick Hutton, Baron Hutton of Furness, PC (born 6 May 1955) is a British politician who served in several offices in the Cabinet of the...
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