title: David Mowbray Balme
text: # David Mowbray Balme
  
  David Mowbray Balme (8 September 1912 — 23 February 1989) was a British expatriate professor and scholar who became the first principal of the University College of the Gold Coast which is now University of Ghana. The Balme Library was named after him.
  
  A banquet was held in his honour at the Commonwealth Hall of the university on the eve of his departure from Ghana. He was presented with an emblem of the university, a crowing cock carved in ivory, by the University Council. He left Ghana the next day to take up his new position as Reader in classics at Queen Mary's College, University of London.
  
  ## Publication
  
  * Aristotle; Gotthelf, Alan; Balme, David M. (Translator) (1 January 1991). Balme, David M. (ed.). Aristotle History of Animals : Books VII-X (Loeb Classical Library, No. 439). Harvard University Press. ISBN 9780674994836. {{cite book}}: |author3= has generic name (help)
  * Aristotle; Balme, D. M. (Translator); Gotthelf, Alan (Contrbutor) (24 December 1992). Aristotle's De partibus animalium I and, De generatione animalium I : (with passages from II. 1-3) (2nd ed.). New York: Clarendon Press. ISBN 978-0198751281. {{cite book}}: |author2= has generic name (help)
  * Aristotle (18 November 2002). Balme, David M.; Gettholf, Alan (prepared for publication) (eds.). Aristotle: 'Historia Animalium': Volume 1, Books I-X: Text (Cambridge Classical Texts and Commentaries, Series Number 38) (First ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0521480024.
  