Henri Milne-Edwards, French Zoologist

Henri Milne-Edwards (October 23, 1800 - July 29, 1885) was a French zoologist. At first he turned his attention to medicine, in which he graduated as an MD at Paris in 1823. His passion for natural history soon prevailed, and he gave himself up to the study of the lower forms of animal life. He became a student of Georges Cuvier and befriended Jean Victor Audouin. He became professor of hygiene and natural history in 1832 at the CollC ge Central des Arts et Manufactures. In 1841, after the death of Audouin, he succeeded him at the chair of entomology at the Musceum National d'Histoire Naturelle. In 1862 he succeeded Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire in the long-vacant chair of zoology. Much of his original work was published in the Annales des sciences naturelles, with the editorship of which he was associated from 1834. Of his books may be mentioned the Histoire naturelle des Crustacces (3 vols. 1837-41), which long remained a standard work Histoire naturelle des coralliaires, published in 1858-60 LeCaons sur la physiologie et l'anatomie comparcee de l'homme et des animaux (1857-81), in 14 volumes. In 1842, he was elected a foreign member of the Royal Society. He died in 1885 at the age of 84. No photographer credited, 1860

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