Francis Maitland Balfour

British biologist.

Born November 10th, 1851 in Edinburgh. [ref]

Died July 19th, 1882 at 30 years old in Mont Blanc. [ref]

Occupations
biologist, mountaineer, zoologist
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Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can. But life leaps over oblivion lightly, losing only a thing or two of no importance, and gloom is just a passing shadow of a cloud. Yann Martel