Alphonse Milne-Edwards

Alphonse Milne -Edwards ( born October 13, 1835 in Paris, † April 21, 1900 ) was a French ornithologist, Crustaceologe and naturalist.

Life

He was the son of the zoologist, Crustaceologen, physician and naturalist Henri Milne Edwards ( 1800-1885 ). Since the latter had many siblings, he dropped his middle name Milne change some of his last name, but wrote without hyphen ( Milne Edwards). Only Alphonse Milne -Edwards added to his family name then add a hyphen. Milne -Edwards was trained as a doctor and then worked as an assistant to his father. In 1865 he became a professor at the École de Pharmacie de Paris and in 1876 at the Muséum national d' Histoire naturelle the position of his father as professor of ornithology and Head of the Department of mammals and birds. There he was a specialist in bird fossils and Marine Research and rose in 1891 to become Director. At the museum he studied, among other fossil crustaceans and published many works, the diversity and the morphology of decapods - especially of crabs ( Brachyura ) and medium crabs ( Anomura ) - reflect the research expeditions on ships as Travailleur, Talisman and Blake.

After the death of Milne -Edwards took over Jean -Frédéric Émile oustalet (1844-1905) the post of Director at the Muséum national d' Histoire naturelle.

Taxonomic revision of the giant panda

Jean Pierre Armand David (1826-1900) is regarded as the first to describe the giant panda in 1869 and named it as Ursus melanoleucus. He placed it in the genus of the Real bears ( Ursus ) a. About a year later revised Milne -Edwards, the decision of David and placed the giant panda in its own new genus, Ailuropoda, because there was in his opinion, too many differences from the genus Ursus bears. Thus, since is the scientific name of the giant panda by grammatical adaptation of Ailuropoda melanoleuca epithet. The Great Panda divided the genus Ailuropoda formerly with the now-extinct dwarf panda (Ailuropoda minor).

Works

  • Histoire naturelle des animaux. Masson, Paris 1897.
  • Notice sur quelques espèces d' oiseaux qui se actuellement éteintes trouvent représentées dans les collections du Muséum d' Histoire naturelle. Paris 1893.
  • Crustacés. Gauthier -Villars, Paris, 1891.
  • Expéditions scientifiques du Travailleur et du Talisman pendant les années 1880, 1881, 1882, 1883. Masson, Paris 1888-1906.
  • Eléments de l' Histoire naturelle des Animaux. Masson, Paris 1882.
  • Notice sur les travaux scientifiques. Martinet, Paris, 1879.
  • Recherches pour servir à l' histoire naturelle of mammifères. Masson, Paris 1868-74.
  • Recherches pour servir à paléontologiques anatomiques et l' histoire des oiseaux fossil de la France. Masson, Paris 1867-71.
  • Recherches sur la faune ornithologique éteinte des iles Mascareignes et de Madagascar. Masson, Paris 1866-73.
  • Recherches anatomiques, zoologiques paléontologiques et sur ​​la famille the Chevrotains. Martinet, Paris, 1864.
  • Rapport sur ​​la production et l' emploi du sel en Angleterre ... Paris 1850.
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