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the Jardin des Plantes, he commenced an extensive investigation of the anatomy, 

 physiology, and zoology of the invertebrated animals of the Northern and Western 

 Coast of France ; the results of which were chiefly published in the " Annales des 

 Sciences Naturelles," and were subsequently collected together in fascicules, in the 

 first of which were introduced two Reports on the " Memoires presented to the 

 Academic Royale des Sciences," one by Geoffroy St. Hilaire, and a second by 

 Messrs. Gr. Cuvier and Dumeril. 



In 1827, the prize for experimental physiology was awarded to H. Milne- 

 Edwards, by the French Academic des Sciences, where he succeeded F. Cuvier as a 

 Member of the Academy in 1838, in the section of Anatomy and Zoology. 



In 1841, on the death of his friend Audouin, he was appointed Professor of 

 Entomology at the Jardin des Plantes, where he took up his residence in the house 

 then recently occupied by Cuvier ; and in 1862 he succeeded Isidore Greoffroy 

 St. Hilaire as Professor of Zoology at the Jardin des Plantes, and in a year or two 

 afterwards he was made Assistant Director of the Museum there. 



In 1834 — 1840 appeared a valuable general work by our author on the Crustacea, 

 under the title, " Histoire Naturelle des Crustaces," forming three volumes 8vo, as 

 part of the " Suites a Buffon." This still remains the best zoological text book on 

 the class. In 1857 — 1860, the "Histoire Naturelle des Corallieres" appeared, being 

 the result of a zoological excursion to the coast of Algeria ; and, subsequently, the 

 " Recherches anatomiques et zoologiques faites pendant un voyage sur les Cotes de 

 la Sicile," a fine quarto volume, with nearly 100 coloured plates. 



Besides these works, and a vast number of detached memoirs, of which the list 

 in the Royal Society's summary extends to more than a hundred items, and which 

 were published, for the most part, in the "Annales des Sciences Naturelles" (the 

 chief zoological periodical in France, commenced in 1824, and which still maintains 

 its rank in French scientific literature), Milne-Edwards prepared several elementary 

 works, which had an enormous circulation ; his " Elements de Zoologie " appeared 

 in 1834, and hi3"Cours elementaire de Zoologie," in 1851, these being the precursors 

 of his opus magnum, " Le9ons sur la Physiologic et 1' Anatomic comparee de I'homme 

 et des animaux," commenced in 1851, and only completed in fourteen volumes in 

 1881. 



On the 7th May, 1839, Professor H. Milne-Edwards, was elected one of the 

 Foreign Members of the Linnean Society of London. In 1852 he was also elected 

 one of the ten Honorary Members of the Entomological Society of London ; and 

 in 1868 one of the few Honorary Members of the Entomological Society of France. 



In 1847, Milne-Edwards was made an Ofilcer of the Legion of Honour, and a 

 Commander of this Order in 1861. In 1856, the "Copley" Medal of the Royal 

 Society of London was awarded to him, on which occasion he came to London to 

 receive it, when the President of that Society observed that " it would be difficult 

 to name any existing naturalist who has prosecuted his researches with success 

 over so very wide a range of investigation." 



He died on the 29th June last, leaving a daughter (married to a son of M. 

 Dumas) and a son, Alphonse Milne-Edwards, who has, for some years past, been suc- 

 cessfully engaged in the study of Crustacea, upon which he has published a number 

 of excellent illustrated memoirs.— J. O. W., Oxford : August 8th, 1885. 



