Died 1900-04-21.
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Alphonse Milne-Edwards was a French mammalogist, ornithologist, and carcinologist. He was English in origin, the son of Henri Milne-Edwards and grandson of Bryan Edwards, a Jamaican planter who settled at Bruges.
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science · Anglo-French zoologist (1835-1900) · botanist · ornithologist · zoologist · carcinologist · university teacher · naturalist · paleontologist · physician · also Alphonse Milne-Edwards, Milne-Edw., Milne-Edwards, A. Milne-Edwards, Alph. Milne-Edwards
Born 13 October 1835 · Died 21 April 1900 · Q542059
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Died 1900-04-21.
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Devoting himself especially to fossil birds and deep-sea exploration
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Career landmark: director of the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle (1891–1900).
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Awarded Grande Médaille d'Or des Explorations (1884).
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Undertook a survey of the Gulf of Gascony with Léopold de Folin and worked aboard the Travailleur and the Talisman, researching the seas off the Canary Islands, the Cape Verde Islands, and the Azores
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Milne-Edwards was the first to describe the giant isopod Bathynomus giganteus in the Scientific journal Comptes rendus de l'Académie des Sciences
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And 1872, Recherches sur la Faune ornithologique étiente des iles Mascareignes et de Madagascar 1866–1874 and Recherches pour servir à l'histoire naturelle des mammifères 1868–1874
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Studied at École supérieure de pharmacie de Paris, doctorate in France (1864).
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Studied at Science Faculty of Paris, doctorate in France (1861).
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Studied at Paris Medical Faculty, doctorate in France (1860).
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And became assistant to his father at the Jardin des Plantes in 1876
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Born 1835-10-13.
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