Abstract
ISAAC BAYLEY BALFOUR, son of the late Dr. John Hutton Balfour, professor of botany in the University of Edinburgh from 1845 to 1879, was born in Edinburgh on March 31, 1853. Educated at the Edinburgh Academy, then as now one of the foremost of British public schools, young Balfour proceeded to the University, in which he graduated as D.Sc. in the department (not yet a faculty) of physical and natural science. He also matriculated in the facultyof medicine, and while still an undergraduate in that faculty was so fortunate as to be attached to the party which in 1874 visited the island of Rodriguez to observe the transit of Venus.
Article PDF
Rights and permissions
About this article
Cite this article
Sir Isaac Bayley Balfour, K.B.E., F.R.S. Nature 110, 816–817 (1922). https://doi.org/10.1038/110816a0
Issue Date:
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/110816a0