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the principal Biological Societies of the metropolis, died at 
his residence in London on the 1st of April last. Mivart 
was born in London in 1827, and was educated at King’s 
College and Oscot. Although called to the Bar, he devoted 
his time and talents almost entirely to scientific and literary 
pursuits, and, besides writing numerous works, chiefly bio¬ 
logical, was a constant contributor to some of our best-known 
periodicals and reviews. Mivart was also an accomplished 
speaker, and was at one time Lecturer at St. Mary’s Hospital 
Medical School, and subsequently Professor of Biology at 
University College. It is not necessary on the present 
occasion to enter into his well-known controversies with 
Professor Huxley, and more recently with Cardinal Vaughan, 
but we must not omit here to allude to his ornithological 
work, which was of considerable importance. Mivart had a 
good knowledge of the osteology of Birds, and published 
valuable memoirs on the axial skeletons of the Ostriches 
and of the Pelicans in the ZoologicalSociety’s f Transactions,’ 
and on the hyoids of the Parrots in the same Society’s f Pro¬ 
ceedings.’ In 1892 he issued a useful 1 Manual on the 
Elements of Ornithology’ (see Ibis, 1892, p. 568), and in 
1896 a quarto Monograph on the Lories, beautifully illus¬ 
trated by Keulemans. But it cannot be said that he greatly 
increased our knowledge of this splendid group of birds, 
except as regards its osteology and distribution, which were 
carefully studied and explained in the last-named work. 
The late Professor Alphonse Milne-Edwards, well known 
to all of us who have had occasion to consult specimens in 
the Museum d’Histoire Naturelle of Paris, or in the adjoining 
Menagerie of the Jardin des Plantes (of both of which well- 
known institutions he was the administrative Director), ought 
not, perhaps, to be called an ornithologist in the narrow 
sense of that term usually applied to it, but had a large and 
varied knowledge of the whole Animal Kingdom, and was 
the author of several important works on the Class of Birds. 
The son of Henri Milne-Edwards, also a well-known zoologist, 
he was born in Paris in 1835, and took his medical degree 
