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Abstract

M. MILNE-EDWARDS having completed the publication of his great work on “Physiologic Comparee,” a subscription has been opened by M. Dumas, the Perpetual Secretary of the Academy of Sciences, for the purpose of presenting the veteran zoologist with a gold medal. Subscriptions are to be sent to M. Maindron at the Secretariat of the Academy of Sciences, or to M. Victor Masson, publisher, Boulevard St. Germain. Paris. M. Milne-Edwards's great work is composed of fourteen large octavo ovolumes—the first four of which are out of print—of 500 pages each; the publication began in 1857, and has been accomplished by twenty-three years of continual work. It includes all the lectures which have been delivered by M. Milne-Edwards at the Museum of Natural History during that lengthened period, and could not have been accomplished if the author had not had the advantage of the immense scientific resources accumulated in that establishment during the last two Centuries for the study of nature.