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His ' HIstoire naturelle dea Crustacea,' the ' Introduction a 

 la Zoologie generale,' and the ' Le9ons sur la Physiologic et 

 I'Anatoniie comparees de I'homme et des animaux,' are alone 

 an imperishable monument to his industry, genius, and penetration. 



In 1832 Milne-Edwards was appointed to the Professorship of 

 Katural History in the College Henri IV., and at the Ecole 

 centrale des Arts et Manufactures. In 1S41 he succeeded 

 Victor Audouin in the Chair of Entomology at the Museum d'His- 

 toire naturelle. On the death of Geoflroy Saint-Hilaire in 1844 

 he was elected to the Chair of Zoology at the Sorbonne, and be- 

 came Dean of the Eaculte des Sciences in 1849. In 1861 he 

 exchanged the chair of Entomology at the Jardin des Plantes for 

 that of Mammalogy, and was shortly afterwards appointed 

 Assistant-Director of the Museum. 



He was elected member of the Academy of Sciences in 1838, 

 and was a member of most of the learned Societies and Acade- 

 mies of Europe and America. In 1856 the Eoyal Society awarded 

 him the Copley Medal ; and he was elected a Foreign Member of 

 this Society in 1839. He was a Grand-Officer of the Legion of 

 Honour, and had likewise been decorated with a number of 

 foreign orders. 



Milne-Edwards died in Paris on the 29th of July last, in his 

 85th year. By his death the Society loses its oldest and one of 

 its most eminent Foreign Members. 



Eet. William "Williamson Newbould was born at Shef- 

 field, Jan. 20, 1819 ; afier his schooldays he proceeded to Cam- 

 bridge, from which time some of his earliest friendshijjs date. 

 "Whilst an undergraduate he was with Prof. Henslow and a 

 party on an excursion, and asked the Professor a question as to 

 a certain genus {Cerasfium) which had been recently reviewed 

 by Mr. Babington. " You had better refer to the author him- 

 self," said Henslow ; " there he is," pointing him out, to New- 

 bould's consternation. The friendship thus begun lasted nearly 

 half a century, as testified by tiie tribute the survivor has paid 

 the deceased m the May Number of the ' Journal of Botany.' 



Although he was entered on the books of Trinity, lie never 

 occupied rooms in the college-buildings, but he once pointed out 

 to the writer the lodgings he lived in opposite the gates. He 

 took his B.A. in 1842, and having taken orders, he was appointed 

 curate at Bluntisham, in Huntingdonshire. The next year wit- 

 nessed the publication of Babington's 'Manual,' an early copy of 

 which was sent by coach to New bould, wiio sat up through the 

 night till tour in the morning, deep in its perusal. It may be 

 imagined how great an attraction this novel account of the native 

 flora must have been to one who was unsatisfied with tlie current 

 floras, which took their tone from Smith. With the exception of 

 S. F. Gray's ' Natural Arrangement ' in 1821, and Lindley's 

 meagre ' Synopsis,' the student had to content himself with 

 manuals on the Liunean System, which had been handed down 



