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Alice Blanche Balfour

1850–1936

Entomologist and scientific illustrator. Began collecting Lepidoptera at an early age and gained practical experience from a neighbour. Made many illustrations for the publications of her brother Francis Maitland Balfour. From 1876, took charge of the household of her brother Arthur James Balfour. Later raised specimens for Edward Bagnall Poulton’s genetics experiments at Oxford.

Source

Opitz 2004.

Bibliography

Opitz, Donald L. 2004. ‘Behind folding shutters in Whittingehame House’: Alice Blanche Balfour (1850–1936) and amateur natural history. Archives of Natural History 31: 330–48.

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