1. 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.

1. 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 Milne-Edwards's father had been jailed for several years for helping some Englishmen in their escape to their country.
Henri Milne-Edwards was brought up in Paris by his older brother Guillaume Frederic Edwards, a distinguished physiologist and ethnologist.
Henri Milne-Edwards's father was released after the fall of Napoleon.
Henri Milne-Edwards became a student of Georges Cuvier and befriended Jean Victoire Audouin.
Henri Milne-Edwards usually wrote it as "Milne Edwards", whilst his son Alphonse always used "Milne-Edwards".
In taxon-authorship, the hyphenated name "Henri Milne-Edwards" is most often used for both father and son.
Henri Milne-Edwards became professor of hygiene and natural history in 1832 at the.
Henri Milne-Edwards was elected an international member of the American Philosophical Society in 1860.
The name of Henri Milne-Edwards is honoured in several names of genera and species, such as:.