Alphonse Milne-Edwards, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Alphonse Milne-Edwards

Anglo-French zoologist

Date of Birth: 13-Oct-1835

Place of Birth: Paris, ĂŽle-de-France, France

Date of Death: 21-Apr-1900

Profession: naturalist, zoologist, ornithologist, university teacher, paleontologist, botanist, carcinologist

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Libra


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About Alphonse Milne-Edwards

  • Alphonse Milne-Edwards (Paris, 13 October 1835 – Paris, 21 April 1900) was a French mammalologist, 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 (then in France).Milne-Edwards obtained a medical degree in 1859 and became assistant to his father at the Jardin des Plantes in 1876.
  • He became the director of the MusĂ©um National d'Histoire Naturelle in 1891, devoting himself especially to fossil birds and deep-sea exploration.
  • In 1881, he undertook a survey of the Gulf of Gascony with LĂ©opold de Folin and worked aboard the Travailleur and the Talisman on trips to the Canary Islands, the Cape Verde Islands and the Azores.
  • For this he received a gold medal of the Royal Geographical Society.His major ornithological works include Recherches Anatomiques et PalĂ©ontologiques pour servir a l'Histoire des Oiseaux Fossiles de la France published in two parts in 1867 and 1872, Recherches sur la Faune ornithologique Ă©tiente des iles Mascareignes et de Madagascar 1866–1874 and Recherches pour servir Ă  l'histoire naturelle des mammifères 1868–1874.
  • His study of fossils led to the discovery of tropical birds such as trogons and parrots from prehistoric France.
  • He worked with Alfred Grandidier on L'Histoire politique, physique et naturelle de Madagascar.Milne-Edwards also described at least one plant taxon; a species of gutta-percha collected from the island of Grande Comore, Comoros by ornithologist LĂ©on Humblot, which Milne-Edwards named Isonandra gutta.
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  • gutta is now considered to be a taxonomic synonym of Palaquium gutta (Hook.) Burck, and a homonym of its basionym Isonandra gutta Hook..)A subspecies of Central American lizard, Holcosus festivus edwardsii Bocourt, 1873, is named in honor of Milne-Edwards.

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