| Authorised form of name | Balfour; Francis Maitland (1851 - 1882) |
| Dates | 1851 - 1882 |
| Nationality | British |
| Place of birth | Edinburgh, Scotland |
| Date of birth | 10 November 1851 |
| Place of death | In the vicinity of Aiguille Blanche de Peuteret, an Alpine peak near Cormayeur, Switzerland |
| Date of death | 18 July 1882 |
| DatesAndPlaces | Burial:
Whittinghame, East Lothian |
| Research field | Embryology |
| Activity | Education:
Harrow School; Trinity College, Cambridge. BA (1873)
Career:
Fellow of Trinity College; Lecturer in Animal Morphology, Cambridge (1876); went to Switzerland after having typhoid fever; set out to climb the Aiguille Blanche de Peteret and his body was found a few days later
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| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 06/06/1878 |
| RSActivity | Medals and prizes:
Royal Medal 1881 |
| Relationships | Son of James Maitland Balfour of Whittinghame, East Lothian, and his wife Lady Blanche Cecil, daughter of the 2nd Marquess of Salisbury; younger brother of Arthur James Balfour (FRS 1888); nephew of Robert, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury (FRS 1869) |
| Source | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB; DSB
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc 1883 vol 35 pp xx-xxvii signed by M F |
| Virtual International Authority File | http://viaf.org/viaf/5048084 |
| Code | NA6471 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| EC/1878/05 | Balfour, Francis Maitland: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| RR/9/2 | Referee's report by William Henry Flower, on a paper 'On the structure and development of lepidosteus' by Francis Maitland Balfour and W N Parker | 7 January 1882 |
| RR/8/276 | Referee's report by Francis Maitland Balfour, on a paper 'Lucifer: A study in morphology' by W K Brooks | 11 May 1881 |
| RR/9/31 | Referee's report by Francis Maitland Balfour, on a paper 'On the development of the ossicula auditus in the higher mammalia' by Alex Fraser | 1882 |
| IM/000215 | Balfour, Francis Maitland | nd |
| RR/8/77 | Referee's report by Francis Maitland Balfour, on a paper 'On the osteology of Polydon folium' by Thomas William Bridge | 20 July 1878 |
| PP/2/34 | Paper, 'Note on a discovery, as yet unpublished, by the late Professor F M [Francis Maitland] Balfour, concerning the existence of a blastopore, and on the origin of the mesoblast in the embryo of Peripatus Capensis' by Henry Nottidge Moseley and Adam Sedgwick | 1882 |