> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 295](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33265022) of TL-2 Suppl. I > Author links: [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5341724) QID Q5341724 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Balfour, Edward Green (1813-1889), British (Scottish) surgeon in the Madras Army, India. **Abbreviated name**: *E.G. Balf.* #### Herbarium and types Unknown. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 1: 111; BB p. 16 (also J. Bot. 36: 101); BM 1: 91; CSP 1: 170; Desmond p. 32 (b. 6 Aug 1813, Montrose; d. 8 Dec 1889, London); DNB suppl. 1. 1: 113-115; Jackson p. 385, 386; Kew 1: 142; Rehder 3: 272, 278, 4: 49, 52; Tucker 1: 55, see also corr. #### Biofile - Boase, F., Modern Engl. biogr. 1: 246-247. 1908. #### Composite works Cyclopaedia of India and of eastern and southern Asia,... Madras 1857 (2, iv, 2054 p.), suppl. 1858, 730 p., suppl. 2, 1862, xiv, 570 and 287 p.; *Ed. 2*, 5 vols. Madras 1871-1873; *ed. 3*, 3 vols. London 1885. − Many botanical entries. ### Publications ##### n.20.095. The timber trees **Title** *The timber trees*, timber and fancy woods, as also the forests, of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia... Second edition. Madras (printed at the Union Press,...). 1862. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Timber trees ed. 2*. **Notes** *Ed. 1*: 1857, Madras, Oct., n.v. *Ed. 2*: Mai 1863 (t.p. 1862, p. 3 signed 20 Dec 1862, p. 359, note dated 12 Mai 1863 sic), p. \[i, iii\], \[1\]-358, \[359-366\]. *Copies*: L, NSW, NY. − We do not know whether copies without p. 359 were issued between 20 Dec 1862 and 12 Mai 1863). *Ed. 3*: 1870, p. \[i-xiii\], \[1\]-370, \[371\]. *Copy*: NY. − Madras (Higginbotham and Co.).