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Milne-Edwards

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

noun

  1. Henri 1800–85, French zoologist.


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This vole, which is described and figured by Milne-Edwards, is supposed to have been found in Afghanistan from a specimen in Griffith's collection.

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

It is instructive to find that between Serres and Milne-Edwards there existed the same antagonism as between von 205Baer and the German transcendentalists.

From Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology by E. S. (Edward Stuart) Russell

Milne-Edwards of the original drawing in a MS.

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

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

Those of Limulus were described and figured by Alphonse Milne-Edwards, but he called them merely “transparent ligaments,” and did not discover their muscular structure.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 3 "Apollodorus" to "Aral" by Various

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