Edward Green Balfour (6 September 1813 – 8 December 1889)[1] was a Scottish surgeon, orientalist and pioneering environmentalist in India. He founded museums at Madras and Bangalore, a zoological garden in Madras and was instrumental in raising awareness on forest conservation and public health in India. He published a Cyclopaedia of India, several editions of which were published after 1857, translated works on health into Indian languages and wrote on a variety of subjects.
- ^ Desmond, Ray (1994). Dictionary of British and Irish Botanists and Horticulturists. CRC Press.
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