Edward Balfour, the Glossary
Edward Green Balfour (6 September 1813 – 8 December 1889) was a Scottish surgeon, orientalist and pioneering environmentalist in India.[1]
Table of Contents
42 relations: Ahmednagar, Allan Octavian Hume, Andaman Islands, Arignar Anna Zoological Park, Ballari, Bangalore, Bear, British Newspaper Archive, Chennai, David Livingstone, Dietrich Brandis, East India Company, Edward Blyth, Eleanor Anne Ormerod, Francis Mason (missionary), George Balfour (Liberal politician), Government Museum, Chennai, Hindi, Hugh Cleghorn (forester), India, Indian elephant, Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, Jean-Baptiste Boussingault, John Tricker Conquest, Joseph Hume, Leopard, Madras Medical College, Mary Scharlieb, Mauritius, Montrose Academy, Myanmar, Oriental studies, Persian language, Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, Sepoy, Straits Settlements, Striped hyena, Tiger, University of Madras, Venomous snake, William Theobald, Wolf.
Ahmednagar
Ahmednagar (officially Ahilya Nagar) is a city in, and the headquarters of, the Ahmednagar district, Maharashtra, India, about northeast of Pune and from Aurangabad.
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Allan Octavian Hume
Allan Octavian Hume, CB ICS (4 June 1829 – 31 July 1912) was a British political reformer, ornithologist, civil servant and botanist who worked in British India and founded the party Indian National Congress.
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Andaman Islands
The Andaman Islands are an archipelago, made up of 200 islands, in the northeastern Indian Ocean about southwest off the coasts of Myanmar's Ayeyarwady Region.
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Arignar Anna Zoological Park
Arignar Anna Zoological Park (abbreviated AAZP), also known as the Vandalur Zoo, is a zoological garden located in Vandalur, to southwest of Chennai, Tamil Nadu, about from the Chennai Central and from Chennai Airport.
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Ballari
Ballari (formerly Bellary) in the eponymous Ballari district, is a city in the state of Karnataka, India.
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Bangalore
Bangalore, officially Bengaluru (ISO: Beṁgaḷūru), is the capital and largest city of the southern Indian state of Karnataka.
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Bear
Bears are carnivoran mammals of the family Ursidae.
British Newspaper Archive
The British Newspaper Archive web site provides access to searchable digitized archives of British and Irish newspapers.
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Chennai
Chennai (IAST), formerly known as Madras, is the capital city of Tamil Nadu, the southernmost state of India.
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David Livingstone
David Livingstone (19 March 1813 – 1 May 1873) was a Scottish physician, Congregationalist, pioneer Christian missionary with the London Missionary Society, and an explorer in Africa.
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Dietrich Brandis
Sir Dietrich Brandis (31 March 1824 – 28 May 1907) was a German-British botanist and forestry academic and administrator, who worked with the British Imperial Forestry Service in colonial India for nearly 30 years.
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East India Company
The East India Company (EIC) was an English, and later British, joint-stock company founded in 1600 and dissolved in 1874.
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Edward Blyth
Edward Blyth (23 December 1810 – 27 December 1873) was an English zoologist who worked for most of his life in India as a curator of zoology at the Royal Asiatic Society of Bengal in Calcutta.
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Eleanor Anne Ormerod
Eleanor Anne Ormerod (11 May 182819 July 1901) was a pioneer English entomologist.
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Francis Mason (missionary)
Francis Mason (2 April 1799 – 3 March 1874), American missionary and a naturalist,Mabberley, D. J. (1985) William Theobald (1829–1908): Unwitting Reformer of Botanical Nomenclature? Taxon 34(1):152–156.
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George Balfour (Liberal politician)
General Sir George Balfour KCB (8 December 1809 – 12 March 1894) was British Army officer and a Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1872 to 1892. Edward Balfour and George Balfour (Liberal politician) are Clan Balfour.
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Government Museum, Chennai
The Government Museum, Chennai, or the Madras Museum, is a museum of human history and culture located in the Government Museum Complex in the neighbourhood of Egmore in Chennai, India.
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Hindi
Modern Standard Hindi (आधुनिक मानक हिन्दी, Ādhunik Mānak Hindī), commonly referred to as Hindi, is the standardised variety of the Hindustani language written in Devanagari script.
Hugh Cleghorn (forester)
Hugh Francis Clarke Cleghorn (9 August 1820 – 16 May 1895) was a Madras-born Scottish physician, botanist, forester and land owner.
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India
India, officially the Republic of India (ISO), is a country in South Asia.
Indian elephant
The Indian elephant (Elephas maximus indicus) is one of three extant recognized subspecies of the Asian elephant, native to mainland Asia.
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Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre
Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre (also called Bernardin de St. Pierre) (19 January 1737, in Le Havre – 21 January 1814, in Éragny, Val-d'Oise) was a French writer and botanist.
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Jean-Baptiste Boussingault
Jean-Baptiste Joseph Dieudonné Boussingault (2 February 1801 – 11 May 1887) was a French chemist who made significant contributions to agricultural science, petroleum science and metallurgy.
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John Tricker Conquest
John Tricker Conquest (1789 – 24 October 1866) was a British accoucheur (male-midwife) and physician who wrote an influential textbook on midwifery Outlines of Midwifery (1820) which went into several editions and was translated into many languages and promoted in colonial India.
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Joseph Hume
Joseph Hume FRS (22 January 1777 – 20 February 1855) was a Scottish surgeon and Radical MP.
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Leopard
The leopard (Panthera pardus) is one of the five extant species in the genus Panthera.
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Madras Medical College
Madras Medical College (MMC) is a public medical college located in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.
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Mary Scharlieb
Dame Mary Ann Dacomb Scharlieb, DBE (née Bird; 18 June 1845 – 21 November 1930) was a pioneer British female physician and gynaecologist in the late 19th/early 20th centuries.
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Mauritius
Mauritius, officially the Republic of Mauritius, is an island nation in the Indian Ocean, about off the southeastern coast of East Africa, east of Madagascar.
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Montrose Academy
Montrose Academy is a coeducational secondary school in Montrose Angus.
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Myanmar
Myanmar, officially the Republic of the Union of Myanmar and also known as Burma (the official name until 1989), is a country in Southeast Asia. It is the largest country by area in Mainland Southeast Asia and has a population of about 55 million. It is bordered by Bangladesh and India to its northwest, China to its northeast, Laos and Thailand to its east and southeast, and the Andaman Sea and the Bay of Bengal to its south and southwest.
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Oriental studies
Oriental studies is the academic field that studies Near Eastern and Far Eastern societies and cultures, languages, peoples, history and archaeology.
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Persian language
Persian, also known by its endonym Farsi (Fārsī|), is a Western Iranian language belonging to the Iranian branch of the Indo-Iranian subdivision of the Indo-European languages.
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Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh
The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh (RCSEd) is a professional organisation of surgeons.
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Sepoy
Sepoy, related to sipahi, is a term denoting professional Indian infantryman, traditionally armed with a musket, in the armies of the Mughal Empire and the Maratha Army.
Straits Settlements
The Straits Settlements were a group of British territories located in Southeast Asia.
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Striped hyena
The striped hyena (Hyaena hyaena) is a species of hyena native to North and East Africa, the Middle East, the Caucasus, Central Asia, and the Indian subcontinent.
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Tiger
The tiger (Panthera tigris) is a member of the genus Panthera and the largest living cat species native to Asia.
University of Madras
The University of Madras (also known as Madras University) is a public state university in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.
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Venomous snake
Venomous snakes are species of the suborder Serpentes that are capable of producing venom, which they use for killing prey, for defense, and to assist with digestion of their prey.
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William Theobald
William Theobald (1829 – 31 March 1908) was a malacologist and naturalist on the staff of the Geological Survey of India serving in Burma, then a part of British India.
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Wolf
The wolf (Canis lupus;: wolves), also known as the gray wolf or grey wolf, is a large canine native to Eurasia and North America.
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Balfour
Also known as Edward Green Balfour.