Address of George Johnson, M.D., F.R.S., President of the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society of London, at the annual meeting, March 1st, 1886.

  • Johnson, George, 1818-1896.
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1886
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Credit: Address of George Johnson, M.D., F.R.S., President of the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society of London, at the annual meeting, March 1st, 1886. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Gueneau de Mussy, who, after the French revolution in 1848, came with the exiled Orleans family to London, where he was a highly esteemed and successful physician, until, after the deposition of the late Emperor Napoleon, he again returned to Paris. Professor Henri Milne Edwards1 was born at Bruges in October 1800. Having completed his elementary studies in Belgium he studied medicine in Paris, where he graduated in 1823. While continuing through life to take an interest in medical subjects he soon gave up the practice of his profession and devoted himself to the study of natural history, and especially to researches among the lower forms of animal life. During the years 1826 and 1828, in company with his friend and fellow-labourer, Audouin, he made a careful study of the various vertebrates on the coasts of Granville, around the isles of Chaussey, and as far as Cape Frehel. A member of the French Academy was at that time engaged on some hydrographical work off this coast, and he assisted the two naturalists by enabling them to use the dredge in deeper water than they could reach from a row-boat. The results of these investigations were laid before the Academy of Sciences in 1829 and formed the subject of an elaborate laudatory report by Baron Cuvier, which was presented to the Academy in November, 1830. The researches thus commenced were continued by Milne- Edwards throughout his long life. In 1841 he was appointed Professor of Natural History in the College Royal de Henri IV, and about the same time he held the Chair of Zoology and Comparative Physiology at the Faculty of Sciences, of which Faculty he was after- wards the Dean. On his friend Audouin's death he became Professor of Entomology at the Museum of the Jardin des Plantes. About this time he published numerous original memoirs in the ' Annales des Sciences Naturelles/ of which famous periodical Milne-Edwards was for fifty years one of the editors. 1 ' Nature,' Aug. 6th, 1885.