His Systematics and economic botany of the Oenocarpus--Jessenia (Palmae) complex, 1986: CIP t.p. (Michael J. Balick) data sheet (b. 7/21/52) galley (assist. dir., New York Botanical Garden Inst. of Economic Botany; research assoc., Botanical Museum of Harvard Univ.)

Rainforest remedies, 1993: title page (Michael J. Balick) page 221 (Michael J. Balick, tropical botanist; doctorate from Harvard University; Director and Philecology Curator of Economic Botany at the Institute of Economic Botany at the New York Botanical Garden; chairman and co-founder of the Ix Chel Tropical Research Foundation)

Rodale's 21st century herbal, ©2014: title page (Michael J. Balick) rear cover (author Michael J. Balick holds a PhD in biology from Harvard University and is Vice President for Botanical Science, Director and Philecology Curator of the Institute of Economic Botany at the New York Botanical Garden; ethnobotanist, with a speciality in global medicine and food plants and the role they play in the healing system)

American men & women of science, 2008, via Gale Biography in context, March 23, 2016 (Michael Jeffrey Balick; nationality: American; occupation: botanist; education: University of Delaware, BSc., 1975; Harvard University, A.M., Ph.D., 1980)

New York Botanical Garden website, March 23, 2016: senior staff (Mike Balick; Vice President for Botanical Science, Director and Senior Philecology Curator of Economic Botany) scientists (Michael Balick; email: mbalick@nybg.org; Michael J. Balick, Ph.D., Harvard University, 1980; in 1981 he co-founded the New York Botanical Garden's Institute of Economic Botany with Sir Ghillean Prance; expertise: ethnobotany, ethnomedicine, medicinal plants, food plants, palms, poison plants; author and editor of 25 scientific and general interest books and monographs; published more than 160 scientific papers and book chapters as well as over 30 horticultural and general interest publications; currently serves as an adjunct professor at Columbia University, Fordham University, and the City University of New York; currently teaches ethnobotany courses at Columbia University and The City University of New York)