Edward Balfour

Portrait by [[Walter Saunders Barnard Edward Green Balfour (6 September 1813 – 8 December 1889) was a Scottish surgeon, orientalist and pioneering environmentalist in India. He founded museums at Madras and Bangalore, a zoological garden in Madras and was instrumental in raising awareness on forest conservation and public health in India. He published a ''Cyclopaedia of India'', several editions of which were published after 1857, translated works on health into Indian languages and wrote on a variety of subjects.

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    The agricultural pests of India : and of eastern and southern Asia, vegetable and animal, injurious to man and his products

    The agricultural pests of India : and of eastern and southern Asia, vegetable and animal, injurious to man and his products by Balfour , Edward

    Published 1887
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    The timber trees, timber and fancy wood, as also, the forests of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia

    The timber trees, timber and fancy wood, as also, the forests of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia by Balfour, Edward

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    Cyclopaedia of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia, commercial, industrial and scientific : products of the mineral, vegetable and animal kingdoms, useful arts and manufactures

    Cyclopaedia of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia, commercial, industrial and scientific : products of the mineral, vegetable and animal kingdoms, useful arts and manufactures

    Published 1985
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