342 THE ZOOLOGIST. 
NOTES AND QUERIES. 
Death of Professor Milne-Edwards.—Since the appearance of our 
last number our readers will have become aware of the death of Prof. Henri 
Milne-Edwards, which took place in Paris on the 29th July last. The 
announcement, we feel sure, will have been received with a universal 
expression of regret amongst naturalists to whom he was known, either 
personally or through the medium of the many valuable works published 
by him during a long lifetime. Of English parentage, he was born in 
Bruges in 1800, and at an early age repaired to Paris, his adopted home, 
to study for the medical profession. This was in the days of Lamarck, 
Latreille, Cuvier, Dumeril, and Audouin, all famous naturalists, with whom 
it was his privilege to become acquainted, and through whose friendship 
and assistance he may be said to have risen to fame. His energy and talents 
were soon recognised, and in 1838 he was selected to succeed F. Cuvier in 
the Académie des Sciences. In 1841 he was appointed to the Professor- 
ship of Natural History in the Collége Royale de Henri Quatre, and after 
wards to the chair of Zoology and Comparative Physiology at the Faculty 
of Sciences. From 1834, in collaboration with his friend Audouin, he 
acted as joint editor of the zoological portion of that useful periodical the 
‘Annales des Sciences Naturelles,’ to which they both contributed many 
valuable memoirs. On the death of Audouin, Milne-Edwards was elected 
to the Professorship of Entomology at the Jardin des Plantes, where some 
years later, namely in 1862, he succeeded Isidore Geoffroy St. Hilaire as 
Professor of Zoology. Of his numerous published works it is difficult 
to speak too highly and yet briefly. To the majority of students . 
his name will be, of course, associated with his popular ‘Elemens de 
Zoologie,’ first published in 1834, and afterwards (in 1851) reissued as 
a ‘Cours elémentaire de Zoologie,’ which not only had a large circulation 
in French, but was translated into several other languages. Of his 
more important works may be mentioned his ‘ Histoire Naturelle des 
Crustacés ’ (1834-40); his ‘ Histoire Naturelle des Coralliéres’ (1857-60) ; 
and his ‘ Legous sur la Physiologie et ‘Anatomie Comparee de l’Homme et 
des Animaux’ (1857-81)—any one of which works would have sufficed to 
make the reputation of its author. Those who, like the writer of these 
lines, have enjoyed the privilege of visiting him in Paris, and have sought 
his aid while studying at the Museum of the Jardin des Plantes, will ever 
remember with gratitude how freely that aid was extended, how courteous a 
reception was given! He will be much missed at the Museum, but we 
rejoice to think that he has left behind him so worthy a successor as his 
son, M. Alphonse Milne-Edwards, to fill the chair of Zoology. 
