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Alphonse Milne-Edwards (Paris, 13 October 1835 – Paris, 21 April 1900) was a French mammalogist, ornithologist, and carcinologist. He was English in origin, the son of Henri Milne-Edwards and grandson of Bryan Edwards, a Jamaican planter who settled at Bruges (then in France).
Oct 13, 2021 · Alphonse Milne-Edwards, a French zoologist, was born Oct. 13, 1835. Alphonse's father, Henri Milne-Edwards, was a star zoologist himself, being professor of zoology at the Museum of Natural History in Paris, which, in spite of its name, was as much a teaching institution as a repository.
Alphonse Milne-Edwards was a French mammalogist, ornithologist, and carcinologist. He was English in origin, the son of Henri Milne-Edwards and grandson of Bryan Edwards, a Jamaican planter who settled at Bruges.
Sprung from English stock, being the grandson of Bryan Edwards, M.P., a West Indian planter who settled at Bruges, Alphonse Milne-Edwards, son of the celebrated Henri Milne Edwards (1800-1885), •was born in Paris, 13th October, 1835, and in his career followed closely in his father's footsteps.
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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. A diagram of the natural classification of vertebrate animals, from Milne-Edwards, 1844.
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Born in Paris in 1835, Alphonse Milne-Edwards took his medical degree in r859, and was nominated Pro fessor at the School of Pharmacy in I865.
