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forms of the Glacial Theorj-, and many of his arguments find 

 supporters at the present day — probably in this very room. 



He has left his mark on the history of our age, and we are 

 proud to think that, in the midst of a busy public life, he found time 

 to carry out at least one original research of great importance, and 

 kept up his general interest in our science till the end. 



Alphonse Milne-Edwards, the renowned son of an illustrious 

 father, Henri Milne-Edwards, was born at Paris in 1835, and 

 died, after a brief illness, on April 21st, 1900. He, like so many 

 celebrated zoologists, was trained for the medical profession, and 

 took his degree in 1859. He became Assistant Naturalist at the 

 Museum d'Histoire Naturelle in 1862, and Professor at the School 

 of Pharmacy in 1865. In 1876 he was appointed Professor of 

 Zoology at the Museum d'Histoire Naturelle, and in 1892 became 

 Director of that institution, a post which he filled with great 

 distinction until the time of his death. 



Essentially a zoologist, and as such justly celebrated for his 

 many labours among both vertebrate and invertebrate animals, he 

 brought his wide knowledge to bear upon the problems of palaeon- 

 tology. In 1863 he published a paper on fossil birds : — ' Memoire 

 sur la Distribution Geologique des Oiseaux Fossiles,' and his work 

 on the Osteology of the Dodo appeared in 1866; but it was in 

 1867 that the first part of his great work appeared, ' Recherches 

 Anatomiques & Paleontologiques pour servir a I'Histoire des Oiseaux 

 Fossiles de la France,' which was completed in four folio volumes in 

 1871. This work is a monument of the labour and research of the 

 writer, and still remains a classic of reference. He also wrote the 

 ' History of the Birds of Madagascar,' in the great work published 

 by A. Grandidier in 1876-85. 



Alphonse Miliie-Edwards became a Member of the French 

 Academy of Sciences in 1879 ; and in 1884 he received the gold 

 medal of the Geographical Society of France for his deep-sea 

 explorations. He was elected a Foreign Member of the Zoological 

 Society of London in 1876, a Foreign Correspondent of our own 

 Geological Society in 1882, and a Foreign Member in 1899. 



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Otto Martin Torell was born in Varberg (Sweden), on June 5th,. 

 1828. At the age of 16 he entered as a student at Lund, where he 

 took up the study of natural science, intending to become, like his 



