> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 112](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33120243) of TL-2 Vol. I > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/31251-1) LSID 31251-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q510424) QID Q510424 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] > [!example] See also [[Balfour, John Hutton (Suppl.)|second entry]] for this author ### Author Balfour, John Hutton (1808-1884), British botanist at Glasgow 1841-1845, King's botanist in Scotland, professor of botany in Edinburgh 1845-1879, father of I. B. Balfour. **Abbreviated name**: *Balf.* \[standard form in IPNI: *Balf.*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection E|E]], Scottish material also at [[Collection GL|GL]], [[Collection K|K]] and [[Collection PTH|PTH]]. *Ref*.: IH 2: 52. - Kent, Brit. herbaria 41. 1953. - Hedge and Lamond, Index coll. Edinburgh 57. 1970. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 1: 112; BB p. 17; BL 2: 296-298, 306, 308, 309; BM 1: 92; Bossert p. 23; CSP 1: 170, 7: 77, 9: 108, 13: 262; GR p. 388-389; Jackson p. 518 \[index\]; Kew 1: 143-145; Langman p. 107; LS 1605-1606; MW p. 31; Proc. - Linn. Soc. 1883-1884: 30; Zander ed. 10, p. 630. - Britten, J. Bot. 22: 128. 1884. - Babington, Memorials 471. 1897. - I. B. Balfour, Notes Edinburgh Bot. Garden 2: 21-23. 1902. - I. B. Balfour, *in* Oliver, Makers Brit. botany 293-300. 1913 (portr.) - Desmond, DSB 1: 423. 1970. #### Composite works *Annals and Magazine of natural History*, editor, vol. 9-20, ser. 2. 1-20, 1842-1857. #### Eponymy *Balfourodendron* Mello ex D. Oliver (1877). ### Publications ##### n.287. Flora of Edinburgh **Title** *Flora of Edinburgh* being a list of plants found in the vicinity of Edinburgh by John Hutton Balfour... assisted by John Sadler... Edinburgh (Adam and Charles Black) 1863. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Fl. Edinburgh*. **Notes** *Co-author*: John Sadler (1837-1882), mosses, hepatics and lichens. *Publ*.: 1863, p. \[i\]-vii, \[1\]-174, 2 maps. *Copies*: BM, NY. *Ref*.: BL 1: 306; BM 1: 92; Jackson p. 252.