Henri Milne Edwards
Henri Milne Edwards ( born October 23, 1800 Bruges, † July 29, 1885 in Paris) was a French zoologist accurate Crustaceologe ( with the special field for crustacea) and naturalist.
Life
Henri Milne Edwards was born as the 27th child of the British William Edwards and the Frenchwoman Elisabeth Vaux on 23 October 1800, Bruges, spent his life but mainly in France. He was married to Laura Trézel. Since he had many siblings, he dropped his middle name Milne change some of his last name, but wrote without hyphen ( Milne Edwards). Only his son Alphonse Milne -Edwards (1835-1900) added his family name then add a hyphen.
Henri Milne Edwards graduated in 1823 successfully be studying medicine in Paris from, but he then turned to the natural history of lower animals. Already in 1828 he was in Paris, his first scientific work out, Recherches sur les anatomiques crustacés, and put it in front of the Académie des Sciences in Paris. There was one year later, Georges Cuvier (1769-1832) as the basis for a very carefully researched and many hand -praised report. This work embodied the results of two archaeological expeditions along with Victor Audouin (1797-1841) near Granville in the years 1826 to 1828 and was among the experts quickly became famous for its clear division of marine fauna in four coastal zones of France.
Milne Edwards in 1832 professor of hygiene and natural history at the Lycée Ecole Centrale des Arts et Manufactures in Paris. In 1841 he became professor of entomology at the Muséum national d' histoire naturelle in Paris and in 1843 professor of entomology and Comparative Physiology at the Faculté des Sciences at the Sorbonne. He took over the management of the Zoological Department in 1862 as a professor of zoology from Isidore Geoffroy Saint- Hilaire ( 1805-1861 ) and in 1864 director of the museum. In 1856 he received from the Royal Society in London, the Copley Medal in recognition of his zoological research. His most important work is: Leçons sur la physiology et l' anatomie de l' homme et comparée des animaux faites à la faculté des sciences de Paris. ( 1857-81 ).
Milne Edwards in 1823 represented the view that the basic structure of all animal tissue consisted of a series of as globules thus formed beads units.
On July 29, 1885 Milne Edwards died in Paris. He left with his wife Laura Trézel nine children, including Alphonse Milne -Edwards, in 1876 at the Museum national d' histoire naturelle was a professor of ornithology and dealt in particular with bird fossils and marine research.
After Edwards named taxa
- Edwardsiidae, Andres 1880 family of sea anemones
- Glossocephalus milneedwardsi, Bovallius 1887, crustacean
- Capricornis milneedwardsii, David 1869, Chinese breed of goat
- Geranopterus milneedwardsi, Mayr and Mourer - Chauvire 2000 species from the Eocene
Works
- A manual of surgical anatomy ... Desilver, Philadelphia 1828th
- A manual of materia medica and pharmacy. Carey & Lea, Philadelphia, 1829.
- Cahiers d' histoire naturelle. Crochard & Masson, Paris 1833-53.
- Annales des sciences naturelles, zoology et biologie animale. Masson, Paris 1834-85.
- Elemens de zoology. Crochard & Dumont, Paris, Brussels 1834-37.
- Histoire naturelle of crustacés. Roret, Paris 1834-40.
- Outlines of anatomy and physiology. Little & Brown, Boston, 1841.
- The zoology. Scheible, Rieger & Sattler, Stuttgart 1848-58.
- Lecons sur la physiology et sur l' anatomie de l' homme et comparee des animaux Paris 1857-1880
- Quelques remarques sur l' emploi du sel en agriculture ... Paris, 1849.
- A monograph of the British fossil corals. London, 1850-72.
- Zoology. Langlois, Leclercq & Masson, Paris 1850-58.
- Mélanges carcinologiques. Martinet, Paris 1851-54.
- Contributions to general zoology. Müller, Stuttgart 1853.
- With Jules Haime Histoire naturelle of coralliaires ou polypes proprement dits. Roret, Paris 1857-60.
- A manual of zoology. Renshaw, London, 1863.
- Mémoire sur la structure élémentaire of principaux tissus organiques des animaux Archs. gén. . Méd, 1823, 3: 165-184.