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Francis Maitland Balfour

British biologist (1851–1882).

Born November 10th, 1851 in Edinburgh.

Died July 19th, 1882 at 30 years old in Aiguille Blanche de Peuterey (mountaineering accident).

Occupations
biologist, embryologist, mountaineer, physician, teacher, zoologist

I’m not afraid to die, I just don’t want to be there when it happens. Woody Allen