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Contributed the chapters on Exploration and Botany to T. Starr King's 



" White Hills of New Hampshire," 1859. 

 Edited, with an Introduction and Notes, "New England's Rarities Discovered," 



by John Josselyn. (Archaeologia Americana, Vol. IV., 1860, pp. 134.) 

 Contributed to Agassiz's Account of a Journey to Lake Superior, etc. Boston, 



1850, pp. 170-174. 

 Contributed the articles on Lichenes to the Pacific Railroad Reports of E.xploru- 



tions and Surveys, Vol. VI., 1857, p. 94 ; and to King's Report of Geological 



Exploration along the 40th Parallel, Vol. V., 1871, pp. 412, 413. 



FOREIGN HONORARY MEMBERS. 



HENRI MILNE EDWARDS. 



Henri Milxe Edwards died at Paris, July 29, 1885, at the age 

 of eighty-five. Born in Belgium, he took his diploma in medicine 

 in Paris, but devoted himself directly to scientific researches among 

 the invertebrate animals. Paris was then the centre of the world for 

 zoijlogical studies, with Cuvier, Lamarck, Latreille, Geoffroy Saint- 

 Hilaire, Dumeril, and many others. Milne Edwards was among the 

 first who, not content with the study of the dead forms of animal life, 

 made prolonged visits to the sea-coasts to study the living forms and 

 to investigate their habits. Among his very numerous publications, 

 his "Histoire Naturelle des Crustaces," 1834-40, a work in which he 

 was associated with his friend Victor Audouin, remained long as a 

 standard authority on this group of animals. His " Lemons sur la 

 Physiologic et 1' Anatomic comparee de I'Homme et des Animaux," 

 1857-81, in fourteen volumes, is also an important work to the student 

 from the immense mass of details and references which it contains. 

 The editorship of the zoological portion of the " Annales des Sciences 

 Naturelles " was for fifty years in his hands. He was Professor of 

 Entomology, later Professor of Zoology, at the Museum of the Jardin 

 des Plantes, and later Assistant Director of the Museum. Milne Ed- 

 wards's study of the geographical distribution of the lower forms of 

 Invertebrates — then a nearly new field — led him to the theory of 

 definite centres of creation. Therefore he has never accepted Darwin's 

 theory. Milne P'dwards will always rank high among the naturalists 

 of this century ; he was through more than half of its course a most 

 reliable, most industrious, and most indefatigable worker. He was 

 kindly and affable to all ; and his house at the Jardin des Plantes 

 was for many years the focus of attraction for all the men of science 

 in or visiting Paris. 



