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See also:BALFOUR, See also:FRANCIS See also:MAITLAND (1851-1882) , See also:British biologist, younger See also:brother of See also:Arthur See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
James Balfour, was See also:born at See also:Edinburgh on the loth of See also:November 1851. At See also:Harrow school he showed but little See also:interest in the See also:ordinary routine, but in one of the masters, Mr See also:George See also:Griffith, he fortunately found a See also:man who encouraged and aided him in the pursuit of natural See also:science, a See also:taste for which, and especially for See also:geology, had been cultivated in him by his mcther from an See also:early See also:age. Going into See also:residence at Trinity See also:College, See also:Cambridge, in 1870, he was elected a natural science See also:scholar of his college in the following See also:year, and although his See also:reading was not ordered on the lines usual for the See also:Schools, he obtained the second See also:place in the Natural Science Tripos of See also:December 1873. A course of lectures on See also:embryology, delivered by See also:Sir See also:Michael See also:Foster in 1871, definitely turned his See also:attention to See also:animal See also:morphology, and, after his tripos, he was selected to occupy one of the two seats allocated to the university of Cambridge at the See also:Naples zoological station. The See also:research See also:work which he began there contributed in an important degree to his See also:election as a See also:fellow of Trinity in 1874, and also afforded him material for a See also:series of papers (published as a monograph in 1878) on the Elasmobranch fishes, which threw new See also:light on
the development of several See also:organs in the Vertebrates, in particular of the uro-genital and See also:nervous systems. His next work was to write a large See also:treatise, See also:Comparative Embryology, in two volumes; the first, published in 188o, dealing with the Invertebrates, and the second (1881) with the Vertebrates. This See also:book displayed a vigorous scientific See also:imagination, always controlled by a logical sense that rigidly distinguished between proved fact and See also:mere See also:hypothesis, and it at once won wide recognition, not only as an admirable See also:digest of the numberless observations made with regard to the development of animals during the See also:quarter of a See also:century preceding its publication, but also on See also:account of the large amount of See also:original research incorporated in its pages. Balfour's reputation was now such that other See also:universities became anxious to secure his services, and he was invited to succeed See also:Professor George Rolleston at See also:- OXFORD
- OXFORD, EARLS OF
- OXFORD, EDWARD DE VERE, 17TH EARL
- OXFORD, JOHN DE VERE, 13TH EARL OF (1443-1513)
- OXFORD, PROVISIONS OF
- OXFORD, ROBERT DE VERE, 9TH EARL OF (1362-1392)
- OXFORD, ROBERT HARLEY, 1ST
Oxford and Sir Wyvilie See also:Thomson at Edinburgh. But although he was only a college lecturer, holding no See also:official See also:post in his university, he declined to leave Cambridge, and in the See also:spring of 1882 the university recognized his merits by instituting a See also:special professorship of animal morphology for his benefit. Unhappily he did not deliver a single professorial lecture. During the first See also:term after his See also:appointment he was incapacitated from work by an attack of typhoid See also:fever. Going to the See also:Alps to recruit his See also:health, he perished, probably on the 19th of See also:July 1882, in attempting the ascent of the See also:Aiguille See also:Blanche, Mont See also:Blanc, at that See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time unsealed. Besides being a brilliant morphologist, Balfour was an accomplished naturalist, and had he lived would probably have taken a high place among British taxonomists.
End of Article: BALFOUR, FRANCIS MAITLAND (1851-1882)
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