William Balfour Baikie
1825–64
Naval surgeon, naturalist, and philologist. Assistant surgeon, Royal Navy, 1848. Assistant surgeon, Haslar Hospital, 1851–4. Surgeon and naturalist on the Niger expedition, 1854; succeeded to the command of the vessel during the voyage. Undertook a second Niger expedition in 1857. Explored West Africa until his death in Sierra Leone.
Source
R. Desmond 1994, DNB.
Bibliography
Desmond, Ray. 1994. Dictionary of British and Irish botanists and horticulturists including plant collectors, flower painters and garden designers. New edition, revised with the assistance of Christine Ellwood. London: Taylor & Francis and the Natural History Museum. Bristol, Pa.: Taylor & Francis.
DNB: Dictionary of national biography. Edited by Leslie Stephen and Sidney Lee. 63 vols. and 2 supplements (6 vols.). London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1912. Dictionary of national biography 1912–90. Edited by H. W. C. Davis et al. 9 vols. London: Oxford University Press. 1927–96.
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