Henri Milne-Edwards, a French naturalist, born in Bruges, Belgium, Oct. 23, 1800. His father was an Englishman. He studied medicine in Paris and took his degree there in 1823, but abandoned practice for physiological pursuits. He occupied for a time the chair of natural history in the lyceum of Henry IV., and in 1841 accepted a similar post in the museum and the faculty of sciences, of which he became president. In 1838 he succeeded F. Cuvier in the academy of sciences, and in 1854 he was elected a member of the academy of medicine. In 1856 he received the Copley medal of the royal society of London. Lie was chosen in 1862 professor of zoology in the museum and faculty of sciences, and in 1864 assistant director in the same institution. His publications comprise Recherches anato-miques sur les crustaces (1828); Manuel de mature medicate (1832); Noureau formulaire pratique des hopitaux (4th ed., 1840); Cahiers cVhistoire naturelle (1834); Elements de zoolo-gie (1834-'5); Histoire naturelle des crustaces (3 vols., 1837-41); Histoire naturelle des corail-liaires, ou polypes proprement dits (3 vols., 1858-'60); Lecons sur la physiologie et Vana-tomie comparee de l'homme et des animaux (1855-'65); Histoire des mammiferes (1872 et seq.), etc.

He also superintended the publication of a new edition of Lamarck's Histoire naturelle des animaux sans tertebres (11 vols. 8vo, 1834-'45). - His son Alphonse, born in Paris in 1835, is a professor in the school of pharmacy, and the author of several works on natural history.