亨利·米尔纳-爱德华兹1800—1885

许多属名与物种名以爱德华兹的名字来命名，如爱氏海葵属（Edwardsia）等。

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维基共享资源上的相关多媒体资源：亨利·米尔纳-爱德华兹

Marcelin Berthelot, Notice historique sur Henri Milne Edwards, Didot, Paris 1891.

Trevor Norton: Stars beneath the sea, Carroll & Graf, New York 2000. ISBN 0-7867-0750-X

Henri Milne-Edwards (23 October 1800 – 29 July 1885) was a French zoologist.

Biography

Henri Milne-Edwards was the 27th child of William Edwards, an English planter and colonel of the militia in Jamaica and Elisabeth Vaux, a Frenchwoman. Henri was born in Bruges, in present-day Belgium, where his parents had retired; Bruges was then a part of the newborn French Republic. His father had been jailed for several years for helping some Englishmen in their escape to their country. Henri spent most of his life in France. He was brought up in Paris by his older brother Guillaume Frederic Edwards (1777–1842), a distinguished physiologist and ethnologist. His father was released after the fall of Napoleon. The whole family then moved to Paris.

At first he turned his attention to medicine, in which he graduated as an MD at Paris in 1823. His passion for natural history soon prevailed, and he gave himself up to the study of the lower forms of animal life. He became a student of Georges Cuvier and befriended Jean Victoire Audouin.

He married Laura Trézel. They had nine children, including the biologist Alphonse Milne-Edwards.

Name

Originally the name Milne was one of the first names of Henri, but, to avoid confusion with his numerous relatives, he added it to his surname Edwards. He usually wrote it as "Milne Edwards", whilst his son Alphonse always used "Milne-Edwards". In taxon-authorship, the hyphenated name "Milne-Edwards" is most often used for both father and son.

Taxon described by him

See Category:Taxa named by Henri Milne-Edwards