Henri Milne-Edwards (1800–85)

French zoologist. Professor of hygiene and natural history, École centrale des arts et manufactures, 1832. Professor of entomology, Muséum d’histoire naturelle, 1841, with responsibility for the collections of crustaceans, myriapods, and arachnids as well as insects; professor of mammalogy, 1861. Foreign member, Royal Society of London, 1848.