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MISS ALICE BLANCHE BALFOUR, of Whittingehame, who died on June 12, at the age of eighty-six years, was a naturalist born and bred, and her scientific interest in Nature persisted in spite of the social distractions of her association with her brother, Arthur James Balfour, politician and philosopher. ID her earlier days, her bent was shared and encouraged by a younger brother, Prof. F. M. Balfour, already a leader in zoology when he died at the age of thirty-one years. Later she paid particular attention to gardening, so that the garden at Whittinge-hame became famous for its beauty, and to the collecting of a full series of the butterflies and moths of East Lothian. Her knowledge of the specific characters and local distribution of these and of other living things was thorough, and her inquiries brought her often to the Royal Scottish Museum in Edinburgh, to which she left her natural history collections.
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R., J. Miss Alice Balfour. Nature 138, 234–235 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/138234c0
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