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system, but, besides this, the stimulus which his investiga- 

 tions gave to studies in comparative anatomy was even of 

 more beneficent influence. As time passed the importance 

 of comparative anatomy as one division of biological science 

 impressed itself more and more upon naturalists. A large 

 number of investigators in France, England, and Germany 

 entered the field and took up the work where Cuvier had 



FIG. 43. H. MILNE-EDWARDS, 1800-1885. 



left it. The more notable of these successors of Cuvier 

 should come under consideration. 



His intellectual heirs in France were Milne-Edwards and 

 Lacaze-Duthiers. 



Milne-Edwards. H. Milne-Edwards (1800-1885) was a 

 man of great industry and fine attainments ; prominent alike 

 in comparative anatomy, comparative physiology, and general 

 zoology, professor for many years at the Sorbonne in Paris. 



