PREFACE. 



UPON the death of Francis Maitland Balfour, a desire 

 very naturally arose among his friends and admirers to 

 provide some memorial of him. And, at a public meet- 

 ing held at Cambridge in October 1882, the Vice- 

 Chancellor presiding, and many distinguished men of 

 science being present, it was decided to establish a 

 ' Balfour Fund ' the proceeds of which should be applied : 

 firstly to maintain a studentship, the holder of which 

 should devote himself to original research in Biology, 

 especially in Animal Morphology, and secondly, ' by 

 occasional grants of money, to further in other ways 

 original research in the same subject '. The sum of 

 ^8446 was subsequently raised; this was, under certain 

 conditions, entrusted to and accepted by the University of 

 Cambridge; and the first 'Balfour student' was appointed 

 in October 1883. 



The publication of Balfour's works in a collected form 

 was not proposed as an object on which part of the fund 

 should be expended, since his family had expressed their 

 wish to take upon themselves the charge of arranging for 

 a memorial edition of their brother's scientific writings. 



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