词条 | Alphonse Milne-Edwards |
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Milne-Edwards obtained a medical degree in 1859 and became assistant to his father at the {{lang|fr|Jardin des Plantes}} in 1876.[1] He became the director of the {{lang|fr|Muséum 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 Léopold 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.[1] His major ornithological works include {{lang|fr|Recherches Anatomiques et Paléontologiques pour servir a l'Histoire des Oiseaux Fossiles de la France}} published in two parts in 1867 and 1872, {{lang|fr|Recherches sur la Faune ornithologique étiente des iles Mascareignes et de Madagascar}} 1866–1874 and {{lang|fr|Recherches pour servir à l'histoire naturelle des mammifères}} 1868–1874.[2] His study of fossils led to the discovery of tropical birds such as trogons and parrots from prehistoric France.[1] He worked with Alfred Grandidier on {{lang|fr|L'Histoire politique, physique et naturelle de Madagascar}}.[3] Milne-Edwards also described at least one plant taxon; a species of gutta-percha collected from the island of Grande Comore, Comoros by ornithologist Léon Humblot, which Milne-Edwards named Isonandra gutta.[4] (I. gutta is now considered to be a taxonomic synonym of Palaquium gutta (Hook.) Burck,[5] and a homonym of its basionym Isonandra gutta Hook..)[6] A subspecies of Central American lizard, Holcosus festivus edwardsii {{small|Bocourt, 1873}}, is named in honor of Milne-Edwards.[7] {{-}}{{zoologist|Milne-Edwards}}{{botanist|Milne-Edw.}}Selected publications
References{{Commons category|Alphonse Milne-Edwards}}1. ^1 2 3 {{cite journal |author=Anonymous |year=1900 |title=Obituary – Professor Alphonse Milne-Edwards |journal=The Auk |volume=17 |issue=3 |pages=320–321 |url=http://sora.unm.edu/sites/default/files/journals/auk/v017n03/p0320-p0324.pdf |doi=10.2307/4069150}} {{Authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Milne-Edwards, Alphonse}}2. ^{{cite journal|title=Review of The Fauna of British India. Part I. 'Mammalia', edited by W. T. Blanford; Recherches pour servir à l'Histoire Naturelle des Mammifères par Alphonse Milne Edwards|journal=The Quarterly Review|date=October 1897|volume=186|pages=394–419|url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=coo.31924065563599;view=1up;seq=406}} 3. ^{{cite journal |author=Anonymous |year=1922 |title=Obituary – Albert Grandidier |journal=The Auk |volume=39 |pages=451–456 (453) |url=http://sora.unm.edu/sites/default/files/journals/auk/v039n03/p0451-p0456.pdf |doi=10.2307/4073496 |issue=3}} 4. ^Bulletin du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle 5: 187–189. 1899. {{ cite web |url=http://tropicos.info/Name/28700712 |title=Name - Isonandra gutta Milne-Edw. |work=Tropicos |publisher=Missouri Botanical Garden |location=Saint Louis, Missouri |accessdate=20 August 2013}} 5. ^{{ cite web |url=http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl/record/kew-103099 |title=TPL, treatment of Isonandra gutta Hook. |work=The Plant List; Version 1. (published on the internet) |publisher=Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and Missouri Botanical Garden |year=2010 |accessdate=20 August 2013}} 6. ^{{ cite web |url=http://tropicos.info/Name/28700712?tab=homonyms |title=Name - Isonandra gutta Milne-Edw. homonyms |work=Tropicos |publisher=Missouri Botanical Garden |accessdate=20 August 2013}} 7. ^Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. {{ISBN|978-1-4214-0135-5}}. ("Edwards", p. 80). 8 : 1835 births|1900 deaths|French scientists|French ornithologists|French carcinologists|Corresponding Members of the St Petersburg Academy of Sciences|French people of English descent|National Museum of Natural History (France) people |
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