Home › Authors › Francis Maitland Balfour Francis Maitland Balfour b. 1851 – d. 1882 · 4 books Biography Biologist from Scotland, brother of the 1. Earl of Balfour; one of the fathers of embryology; died early while mountain climbing. Books by Francis Maitland Balfour Traité d'embryologie et d'organogénie comparées 1883 A Treatise on comparative embryology v.2, 1881 1880 Handbuch der vergleichenden Embryologie 1880 A monograph on the development of elasmobranch fishes 1878
