> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 111](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33120242) of TL-2 Vol. I > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/423-1) LSID 423-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q670050) QID Q670050 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] > [!example] See also [[Balfour, Isaac Bayley (Suppl.)|second entry]] for this author ### Author Balfour, \[Sir\] Isaac Bayley (1853-1922), Scottish botanist, professor of botany in the University of Edinburgh. 1888-1921, Queens' botanist in Scotland, son of John Hutton Balfour. **Abbreviated name**: *I. B. Balf.* \[standard form in IPNI: *Balf.f.*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection E|E]]; first set of Rodriguez and Socotra Islands (1874-1875) at [[Collection K|K]]. Socotra, Aden and Scottish plants also at [[Collection OXF|OXF]]. Balfour's *Collectio myxomycetum* at [[Collection E|E]] has material from many collectors. *Ref*.: IH 2: 52. - Kent, Brit. herbaria 41. 1953. - Clokie, Account herbaria Oxford 125. 1964. - Hedge and Lamond, Index coll. Edinburgh 57. 1970. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 1: 112; BB p. 16-17; BL 1: 98, 101; BM 1: 92, 6: 52; CSP 7: 77, 9: 108, 12: 45, 13: 262; IF p. 680; Jackson p. 133; Kew 1: 142-143; Langman p. 679, 791; LS 1602-1604; MW p. 30-31; NI 72; Plesch p. 399. - Balfour, Testimonials in favour of Isaac Bayley Balfour \[Edinburgh\] 1879, 42 p. - Anon., Proc. Linn. Soc. 1883-1884: 30-31. 1886. - Wittrock, Acta Horti Berg. 3(2): 89. 1903, 3(3): 75. 1905. - Reynolds Green, Hist. Bot. 107, 128. 1909. - Anon., The Times 1 Dec. 1922 (*n.v.*). - Anon., Bot. Exchange Club Reports 6(5): 690-692. 1923. - Bower, J. Bot. 61: 23-26. 1923 (from The Glasgow Herald 5 Dec 1922). - Bower, Proc. Roy. Soc. Edinburgh 43(3): 230-236. 1923. - Farmer, Ann. Bot. 37: 335-339. 1923 (portr.) - Farmer, Bull. misc. Inf. Kew 1923: 30-35. - Wright Smith, Trans. bot. Soc. Edinburgh 28: 192-196. 1923 (portr.) - Prain, Proc. Roy. Soc. London 96B(678): i-xvii. 1924. - Nelmes and Cuthbertson, Bot. Magaz. Dedic. 1827-1927: 246-248. 1932. - White, The Stapelieae 1: 117 (portr.) 1937. - Bower, Sixty years of botany in Britain 58-65. 1938. - Desmond, DSB 1: 422-423. 1970. - Anon., J. Roy. hort. Soc. 98(3). 1973 (portr.) - Matthews, Bot. Soc. Edinburgh News 10: 4-6. 1973, 11: 5-7. 9973. #### Composite works Balfour was one of the editors of *Annals of Botany* (1887-1912); he published a revised version of J. von Sachs *History of botany* (1890) as well as of Solms Laubach, *Fossil botany* (1891). Balfour translated, with P. Groom, Schimper's *Plantgeography upon a physiological basis* (1903). #### Eponymy *Balfourina* O. Kuntze (1891). ### Publications ##### n.286. Botany of Socotra **Title** *Botany of Socotra* by Isaac Bayley Balfour... with the assistance of other botanists. Forming vol. xxxi of the Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Edinburgh (Robert Grant & Son), London (Williams and Norgate) 1888. Qu. **Abbreviated title**: *Bot. Socotra*. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1888 (Nat. Nov. Aug 1888), p. \[i\]-lxxv, \[1\]-446, *100 pl*., map. *Copies*: G, NY. – Fungi by M. C. Cooke. *Ref*.: BL 1: 101; BM 1: 92; Kew 1: 143; IDC 437.