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Milne-Edwards

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[miln-ed-werdz, meel-nay-dwars] / ˈmɪlnˈɛd wərdz, mil neɪˈdwars /

noun

  1. Henri 1800–85, French zoologist.


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Among them Professor Serres holds the first rank, and it is to him that Milne-Edwards alludes in the passage just cited.

From The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine by E. Rameur

The character of the neurotic, as Kiernan remarks, recalls the observation of Milne-Edwards concerning the monkey character.

From Degeneracy Its Causes, Signs and Results by Eugene S. Talbot

Professor Milne-Edwards remarks that he knows not amongst the carnivora a similar example of a tooth so disposed.

From Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon by Robert Armitage Sterndale

Gervais, E. Blanchard, and above all by A. Milne-Edwards, and in the equivalent beds of Hampshire.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Slice 7 "Bible" to "Bisectrix" by Various

In another part M. Milne-Edwards remarks that there is no carnivorous animal of which the zygomatic arches are so developed as in the Ailuropus.

From Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon by Robert Armitage Sterndale

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