Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Edward Green Balfour (6 September 1813 Angus, Montrose-8 December 1889, Gloucester Terrace, London) 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.. }
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- Edward_Balfour abstract "Edward Green Balfour (6 September 1813 Angus, Montrose-8 December 1889, Gloucester Terrace, London) 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.".