The New Student's Reference Work/Balfour, Francis Maitland

Balfour, Francis Maitland (1851–1882), brother of Arthur. A highly gifted young naturalist, educated at Trinity College, Cambridge. His investigations, especially in the line of embryology, were of great importance. Between 1879 and 1882 he brought together all that was known about the developmental stages of animals in his Comparative Embryology, a work of almost priceless value to students of embryology. In 1882 he and his single guide were killed on the Alps by slipping while attempting to climb one of the spurs of Mont Blanc.