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  • Grandidier was among the first to properly study and document Madagascan wildlife, publishing (with A. Milne-Edwards) his observations in the 32-volume Histoire Physique, Naturelle, et Politique de Madagascar.

    Literally, flying lemurs (and not dermopterans) Darren Naish 2006

  • Grandidier was among the first to properly study and document Madagascan wildlife, publishing (with A. Milne-Edwards) his observations in the 32-volume Histoire Physique, Naturelle, et Politique de Madagascar.

    Archive 2006-09-01 Darren Naish 2006

  • Other notable species include goshawk Accipiter hensti, which may be threatened, and lemurs Propithecus verreauxi deckeni, western gentle lemur Hapalemur griseus occidentalis, forked marked lemur Phaner forcifer, and Milne-Edwards sportive lemur Lepilemur edwardsi.

    Tsingy de Bemaraha Strict Nature Reserve, Madagascar 2008

  • A cladistic analysis of the genus Platythelphusa A. Milne-Edwards, 1887 from Lake Tanganyika, East Africa (Decapoda: Potamoidea: Platythelphusidae) with comments on the phylogenetic position of the group.

    All that matters 2005

  • But the difference between the powers of the lowest plant, or animal, and those of the highest, is one of degree, not of kind, and depends, as Milne-Edwards [91] long ago so well pointed out, upon the extent to which the principle of the division of labour is carried out in the living economy.

    Autobiography and Selected Essays 2003

  • Milne-Edwards, Saint-Claire-Deville frequently consulted him upon the most difficult problems in chemistry, a science which was indebted to him for considerable discoveries, for in 1853 there had appeared at Leipzig an imposing folio by Otto Liedenbrock, entitled, “A Treatise upon Transcendental Chemistry,” with plates; a work, however, which failed to cover its expenses.

    Journey to the Interior of the Earth 2003

  • Milne-Edwards and de Quatrefages, saw at once the importance of this discovery, proved to demonstration the genuineness of the bone in question, and became the most ardent defendants in what the English called this

    Journey to the Interior of the Earth 2003

  • Purbeck Beds the isopod named by Milne-Edwards _Archaeoniscus Brodiei_; in

    Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" Various

  • Not many years after the publication of Milne-Edwards '_Introduction à la zoologie générale_ (1851) there appeared a book by H.G. Bronn in which was offered a very similar analysis of organic diversity.

    Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology

  • [306] This principle was first developed by Milne-Edwards in 1827, in the _Dictionnaire classique d'Hist. naturelle_.

    Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology

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