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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Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (redirect from John Hope Gateway)
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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