Prof. A. Milne-Edwards

Abstract

IT is with sincere regret that we have to record the death, at the age of sixty-four, of Prof. Alphonse Milne-Edwards, the Director of the Paris Museum of Natural History, which took place at Paris on Saturday, April 21, after a brief illness. The late professor was of English descent, being the grandson of Mr. Bryan Edwards, M.P., a West Indian planter who settled at Bruges; and, with this ancestry, it is curious to note how extremely imperfect was his colloquial knowledge of the English language. His father, Prof. Henri Milne-Edwards, was the well-known eminent zoologist of Paris, who died in 1885; and father and son were for many years associated in zoological work.