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appointment to the Joint Directorship of the Menagerie and 

 Museum dates only from 1891. 



His earUer works on the anatomy of the Chevrotains (1864), 

 and on the Dodo (1866), were immediately followed by his ' Ke- 

 cherehes Anatomiqiies et Paleontologiques pour servir a I'Histoire 

 des Oiseaux Fossiles de la France,' of which two volumes of text and 

 two of illustrations appeared during the seven followingyears. This 

 work is sufficient to have alone made him famous ; but, during 

 its progress, he, with his father, brought out the equally note- 

 worthy ' Eecherches pour servir a I'Histoire Naturelle des Mammi- 

 feres,' completed in 1874. The ornithological treatise covered the 

 description from the French Tertiaries of the remains of existing 

 African and Malagasy genera ; the mammalian, of remarkable 

 forms from Central Asia; and the period of their production also 

 witnessed the issue of the 'Recherches sur laFaune Ox'nithologique 

 eteinte de lies Mascareignes et de Madagascar,' upon the living 

 animals of which Milne-Edwards also published important papers 

 and articles. 



Apart from this phase of his work, which has resulted in the 

 completion of memoirs of monumental importance, far-reaching 

 alike in their classificatory and zoogeographical significance, 

 Milne-Edwards took a pioneer's share in the development of 

 Marine Exploration, and the study of Marine Zoology as more 

 especially related to that ; and he further wrote a series of papers 

 upon Mai'ine Cffilenterates and the Crustacea, to the description 

 of a crab from Lake Tanganyika. 



The voyage of the Travailleur, for survey of the Gulf of 

 Gascogny, undertaken under his own supervision in 1881, was 

 entirely due to his endeavours and appeal to his Government ; 

 and so successful were the results oi: this and the associated 

 exploration of the Straits of Gibraltar and the Mediterranean, 

 tliat in the following year the vessel was commissioned for a 

 Survey of the Atlantic extending to the Canaries. Immediately 

 upon this, the now equally famous cruise of the Talisman 

 was initiated : the coast of Portugal, Morocco, the Canary and 

 Cape Verde Islands being explored, on to the Sargassa Sea, the 

 return voyage in 1883 being by way of the Azores. Complete 

 success crowned these successive efforts, and for the ' Expeditions 

 scientifiques du Travailleur et du Talisman,' Milne-Edwards was 

 awarded the Gold Medal of the lioyal Geographical Society. 



He died at Paris on 21st April, 1900, at the age of 64, after an 

 illness of short duration. He was in 1876 elected a Foreign 

 Member of the Zoological Society of London, in 1882 a Foreign 

 Correspondent of the Geological Society, and on 7th May, 1896, 

 a Foreign Member of the Linnean. 



Thomas Heney Faeeee, 1st Baron Farrer, was born on 

 24th June, 1819, educated at Eton and Balliol College, Oxford, 

 and took his degree of B.A. in 1841, On quitting the University 

 he read for the Bar, to which he was called in 1844, but in ISoO- 



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