Henri Milne-Edwards
Henri Milne-Edwards ForMemRS | |
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Born | |
Died | 29 July 1885 Paris, French Third Republic | (aged 84)
Nationality | French |
Alma mater | University of Paris |
Awards | Copley Medal (1856) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Zoology |
Author abbrev. (zoology) | Milne-Edwards |
Henri Milne-Edwards (23 October 1800 – 29 July 1885) was an eminent French
Biography
Henri Milne-Edwards was the 27th child of
At first he turned his attention to medicine, in which he graduated as an
He married Laura Trézel. They had nine children, including the biologist Alphonse Milne-Edwards.
Name
Originally the name Milne was one of the first names of Henri, but, to avoid confusion with his numerous relatives, he added it to his surname Edwards. He usually wrote it as "Milne Edwards", whilst his son Alphonse always used "Milne-Edwards". In taxon-authorship, the hyphenated name "Milne-Edwards" is most often used for both father and son.[1]
Works
One of his earliest papers (Recherches anatomiques sur les crustacés), which was presented to the
Also in 1829, working in the scientific field of herpetology, he described and named five new species of lizards.[2]
He became professor of hygiene and natural history in 1832 at the Collège Central des Arts et Manufactures. In 1841, after the death of Audouin, he succeeded him at the chair of entomology at the
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 Crustacés (3 vols., 1837–1841), which long remained a standard work; Histoire naturelle des coralliaires, published in 1858–1860, but begun many years before; Leçons sur la physiologie et l'anatomie comparée de l'homme et des animaux (1857–1881), in 14 volumes; and a little work on the elements of zoology, originally published in 1834, but subsequently remodelled, which enjoyed an enormous circulation.
In 1842, he was elected a foreign member of the Royal Society. The Royal Society in 1856 awarded him the Copley Medal in recognition of his zoological investigations. He was elected an international member of the American Philosophical Society in 1860.[3] He died in Paris. His son, Alphonse Milne-Edwards (1835–1900), who became professor of ornithology at the museum in 1876, devoted himself especially to fossil birds and deep-sea exploration.
An important early classification scheme for vertebrates, diagrammed as a series of nested sets, was illustrated in Milne-Edwards (1844).[4]
Taxon described by him
Honour
The name of Henri Milne-Edwards is honoured in several names of genera and species, such as:[1][unreliable source?]
- Edwardsia (de Quatrefages, 1841)
- Edwardsiella (Andres, 1883)
- Henricia (J. E. Gray, 1840)
- Milneedwardsia(Bourguignat, 1877)
- Milnesium (Doyère, 1840)
- Alpheus edwardsii (Audouin, 1826)
- Archaeoniscus edwardsii (Westwood, 1854)[5]
- Aristaeopsis edwardsiana(Johnson, 1868)
- Boeckosimus edwardsii (Krøyer, 1846)
- Calliostoma milneedwardsi (Locard, 1898)
- Cancer edwardsi (Bell, 1835)
- Chirostylus milneedwardsi (Henderson, 1885)
- Ciona edwardsi (Roule, 1886)
- Colobomatus edwardsi (Richiardi, 1876)
- Colpaster edwardsi (Perrier, 1882)
- Conus milneedwardsi (F. P. Jousseaume, 1894)
- Costa edwardsii (Roemer, 1838)
- Diastylis edwardsi (Krøyer, 1841)
- Diogenes edwardsii (de Haan, 1849)
- Discodoris edwardsi (Vayssière, 1902)
- Dynamene edwardsi (Lucas, 1849)
- Ebalia edwardsii (Costa, 1838)
- Fedora edwardsi (Jullien, 1882)
- Forskalia edwardsi(Kölliker, 1853)
- Glossocephalus milneedwardsi (Bovallius, 1887)
- Goniastrea edwardsi (Chevalier, 1971)
- Grapsicepon edwardsi Giard & Bonnier, 1888
- Jasus edwardsii (Hutton, 1875)
- Lithophyllon edwardsi (Rosseau, 1850)
- Lophoura edwardsi (Kölliker, 1853)
- Maasella edwardsi(de Lacaze-Duthiers, 1888)
- Montipora edwardsi (Bernard, 1879)
- Myrianida edwardsi (de Saint-Joseph, 1887)
- Neoamphitrite edwardsii (de Quatrefages, 1865)
- Ocenebra edwardsii (Payraudeau, 1826)
- Odontozona edwardsi (Bouvier, 1908)
- Onisimus edwardsii (Krøyer, 1846)
- Pagurus edwardsi (Dana, 1852)
- Periclimenes edwardsi (Paulson, 1875)
- Pisoides edwardsi (Bell, 1835)
- Plesionika edwardsii (Brandt, 1851)
- Propithecus edwardsi(Grandidier, 1871)
- Sadayoshia edwardsii (Miers, 1884)
- Salmincola edwardsi (Olsson, 1869)
- Sergestes edwardsii (Krøyer, 1855)
- Tergipes edwardsii (Nordmann, 1844)
- Teuchopora edwardsi (Jullien, 1882)
References
- ^ a b Hans G. Hansson. "Henri Milne-Edwards". Biographical Etymology of Marine Organism Names. Göteborgs Universitet. Archived from the original on 5 February 2012. Retrieved 28 August 2010.
- ^ The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
- ^ "APS Member History". search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved 15 January 2021.
- ^ Milne-Edwards, H. 1844. Considerations sure quelques principes relatifs a la classification naturelle des animaux. Ann. Sci. Nat. ser. 3 vol. 1:65-99
- S2CID 129712238.
Bibliography
- Marcelin Berthelot, Notice historique sur Henri Milne Edwards, Didot, Paris 1891.
- Trevor Norton: Stars beneath the sea, Carroll & Graf, New York 2000. ISBN 0-7867-0750-X
External links
- Media related to Henri Milne-Edwards at Wikimedia Commons
- Works by or about Henri Milne-Edwards at Internet Archive