Milne-Edwards
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He was constantly in the society of the great men who then so nobly represented the dignity of natural science in France; Laplace, Cuvier, Biot, Arago, Gay-Lussac, Milne-Edwards and others were his friends.
From Heroes of Science Chemists by Muir, M. M. Pattison (Matthew Moncrieff Pattison)
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
Darwin, 234-5Gegenbaur, 261Semper, 279In Embryology, 168Main Principle of Morphology, 246, 302 Convergence— Milne-Edwards, 199I.
From Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology by E. S. (Edward Stuart) Russell
The last cause of diversity that Milne-Edwards adduces is what he calls a "borrowing" of peculiarities of structure from another systematic group.
From Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology by E. S. (Edward Stuart) Russell
Organic evolution has largely depended upon what Milne-Edwards called the "physiological division of labour."
From Woman and Womanhood A Search for Principles by Saleeby, C. W. (Caleb Williams)
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