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Andrew Balfour (1630 - 1694)

Botanist, physician, and antiquary. He had a natural history collection in Edinburgh (Freshwater, 354). Dictionary of National Biography entry: http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/1182 Other biography: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Balfour_%28botanist%29 Botanist
Collector (minor)
 Relevant locations: Founder or Creator of Edinburgh Physic Garden, Edinburgh
Residence at Edinburgh, Midlothian
Residence at St. Andrews, Scotland
Visited Oxford, Oxfordshire
Visited London, England
 Relationships: Andrew Balfour was a brother of James Balfour (1600-1657)
Andrew Balfour was a friend of Sir Robert Sibbald (15 Apr 1641-1722)

James Sutherland (1638-1719) was a associate or acquaintance (general) of Andrew Balfour
Linked print sources: as Author (in assoc. with a ms or print source) - Letters writen [sic] to a friend to a friend by the learned and judicious Sir Andrew Balfour, M.D. containing excellent directions and advices for travelling thro' France and Italy, with many curious and judicious remarks and observations made by himself, in his voyages thro' these countreys, published from the author's original m.s.
as Collector (minor) - Auctarium musaei Balfouriani, e musaeo Sibbaldiano, sive, Enumeratio & descriptio rerum rariorum, tàm naturalium quam artificialium, tàm domesticarum quàm exoticarum quas Robertus Sibbaldus M.D. eques auratus, Academie Edinburgenae donavit: quae quasi manuductio brevis est, ad historiam naturalem. .
as Collector (minor) - Collecting Beyond the Book: Edinburgh University Library and the Earliest University Museums.
as Collector (minor) - Letters writen [sic] to a friend to a friend by the learned and judicious Sir Andrew Balfour, M.D. containing excellent directions and advices for travelling thro' France and Italy, with many curious and judicious remarks and observations made by himself, in his voyages thro' these countreys, published from the author's original m.s.
as Collector (minor) - Museums, Their History and Their Use: With a Bibliography and List of Museums in the United Kingdom.
as Mentioned or referenced by - Books and Universities.
as N/A - Lord Rochester's Monkey.
as Subject of/in a document - Memoirs of Sir Andrew Balfour.
as Subject of/in a document - Memoria Balfouriana, sive, Historia rerum, pro literis promovendis gestarum a clarissimis fratribus Balfouriis, D. D. Jacobo, Barone de Kinaird, Equite, Leone, Rege Armorum et D. D. Andrea, M.D. Equite Aurato.
as - Catalogus selectissimorum in quavis lingua & facultate librorum, quorum maxima pars pertinebat ad clarissimos fratres D.D. Balfourios, Jacobum ... et Andream ...: quorum auctio habebitur duodecimo die Junii, 1669, in Ædibus, in vico vulgò dicto High Street, o Regione Tmepli Cathedralis / catalogi venales prostant apud D. And. Symson, & D. Hen. Knox.
 References in Documents:
Selections from Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London (1665-1669) And the Barnacle which I call Concha quinquevalvis Animal sui generis continens variis cirrhis& caudâ rotundâ Rugosâ instructum. Dr. Balflour found Eggs in the Cauda of it.