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system, but, besides this, the stimulus which his investiga- 
tions gave to studies in comparative anatomy was even of 
more bencficent influence. As time passed the importance 
of comparative anaiomy 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 ficld and took up the work where Cuvier had 
Fic. 43.—H. Mitne-Epwarps, 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 
zodlogy, professor for many years at the Sorbonne in Paris. 
