Letter of application with statement and letters in support of Isaac Bayley Balfour, M.A. (Oxon.), ..., candidate for the Chair of Medicine and Botany in the University of Edinburgh.

  • Balfour, Isaac Bayley, 1853-1922.
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[1888]
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    I am Examiner in Botany in the Universities of Edinburgh, of Cambridge, and of London, i From 1885-86 I was Examiner in Botany in Victoria University. I was also Examiner in i Botany in the University of Edinburgh from 1878-79, \ I In 1884, I was elected Fellow of the Koyal Society of London. In 1883, I was elected ] corresponding member of the German Botanical Society, I am also Fellow of the Eoyal Society t of Edinburgh, of the Linnean Society, and of the Geological Society. In 1882-1883, I was;; President of the Botanical Society of Edinburgh. In 1881, I was Vice-President of the ; Geographical Section of the British Association at York, and in 1885 Vice-President of the ; Biological Section at Aberdeen. | In 1874, I was appointed by the Eoyal Society of London Botanist and Geologist to the ' “Transit of Venus” Expedition to Eodriguez. The report of my explorations of the Island is-' published in the Fhilosophical Transactions. In 1880, I made a scientific exploration of the Island of Socotra for the Eoyal Society and the British Association. An account of the Botany of the Island forms a volume of Transactions of the Eoyal Society of Edinburgh. Besides the memoirs upon the results of my foreign explorations, I have contributed articles to various botanical publications. I have also edited for the Oxford University Press an English edition of “ Goebel’s Outlines of Classification and Special Morphology of Plants,” of “ De Bar/s Comparative Morphology and Biology of Fungi, Mycetozoa, and Bacteria,” and of “De Bary’s Lectures on Bacteria;” and I am at present editing English editions of “Solms’-Laubachs Introduction to Palteophytology,” and “ Sachs’s History of Botany.” On the invitation of M. De Candolle, I am preparing a monograph on Artocarpeaj, to form a volume of the supplement to “ De Candolle’s Prodromus.” Ill 1887, in conjunction with Dr Vines of Cambridge, and other botanists, I was instrumental in starting a new Botanical Journal in Britain—The Annals of Botany—of which I am one of the Editors. Copies of some of the more important of my works I send with this statement. In support of my candidature I am permitted to refer to leading botanists and botanical teachers in the country, and other scientific friends who have personal Imowledge of me and my work, whose names are attached to the letters to you which I am allowed to send along with this. I also forward letters to you from the President of St Mary Magdalen College and the Heads of the Universities with which I have been connected as Professor. Should you appoint me to the Chair of Medicine and Botany in Edinburgh, I should endeavour to fulfil efficiently the duties belonging to the office. I am. 1\Iy Lords and Gentlemen, Your obedient Servant, ISAAC BAYLEY BALFOUE.