Alphonse Milne-Edwards

See also: Edwards

Alphonse Milne-Edwards , born with Paris the October 13rd 1835 and died in Paris the April 21st 1900, is a zoologist French.

He obtains his title of doctor in Médecine in 1859 and becomes professor at the school of pharmacy in 1865.

He leads, in 1881, a scientific mission of exploration of the the Bay of Biscay. He will prolong it later with the the Canaries, the islands of the Cape Verde and the the Azores. This work will be rewarded by the gold medal for Royal Geographical Society.

It publishes very many work in ornithology. It is in particular necessary to quote its anatomical and paleontological Recherches to be used with the history of the fossil birds of France (four volumes, 1867-1872) and its Recherches on extinct ornithological fauna of the Mascareinges islands and Madagascar (1866-1874).

It also carries out research on the Mammifère S of Madagascar and Central Asia.

Milne-Edwards becomes professor of Ornithologie and Mammalogie to the national Muséum of natural history of Paris in 1876. He becomes director of the natural history museum in 1891 and he is elected member of the Academy of Science in 1879.

He is the son of Henri Milne Edwards which he succeeded the pulpit of the Vertébré S at the time of the departure to the retirement of this last.

List partial of the publications

  • 1850 : Report/ratio on the production and the use of salt in England , Paris.
  • 1860 : “History of the fossil shellfish podophthalmaires”. Yearly of the Natural science , Series 4, Zoology, 14: 129-294, pls. 1-10.
  • 1862 - 1865: “Monograph of shellfish of the cancériens family”. Annals of the natural science, zoology, Series 4,18 (1862): 31-85; 20 (1863): 273-324; Series 5,1 (1864): 31-88; 3 (1865): 297-351.
  • 1862 : “On the existence of Shellfish of the family of Raniniens for the cretaceous period”. Reports of the Academy of Science of Paris , 55: 492-494.
  • 1864 : anatomical, zoological and paleontological Research on the family of Chevrotains , Trip hammer, Paris.
  • 1866 - 1873: Research on the extinct ornithological fauna of the Mascareignes islands and Madagascar , Masson, Paris.
  • 1867 - 1871: anatomical and paleontological Research to be used for the history of the fossil birds of France , Masson, Paris.
  • 1868 - 1874: Research to be used for the natural history of the mammals , Masson, Paris.
  • 1873 : “Descriptions of some shellfish new or little known coming from the Museum of Mr. C. Godeffroy”. Newspaper of Museum Godeffroy , 1: 77-88, 12-13.
  • 1879 : Note on the scientific work , Trip hammer, Paris.
  • 1879 : with Giovanni Battista Brocchi (1772-1826) “Note on some fossil Shellfish belonging to the group of the macrophthalmiens”. Bulletin of the philomathic Company of Paris , 3: 113-117.
  • 1880 : “Carryforwards one the results off dredging, under the supervision off Alexander Agassiz, in the GULF off Mexico City and in the Caribbean Sea, 1877, `78, `79, by the United States Coast Survey Steamer " Blake" … VIII. Preliminary studies on Shellfish”. Bulletin off the Museum off Comparative Zoology At Harvard College , 8 (1): 1-68.
  • 1881 : “Note on some fossil Shellfish of the surroundings of Biarritz”, Yearly of sciences geological (Paris), 11, article 2, pls. 21-22.
  • 1882 : Elements of the Natural history of the Animals , Masson, Paris.
  • 1888 - 1906: Scientific exhibitions of the Worker and the Talisman during the years 1880,1881,1882,1883 , Masson, Paris.
  • 1891 : Crustacean , Gauthier-Villars, Paris.
  • 1893 : Note on some currently extinct species of birds which are represented in the collections of the Natural history museum of Natural history , Paris.
  • 1897 : Natural history of the animals Masson, Paris.

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