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NEWTON, ALFRED (1829–1907)

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NEWTON, See also:ALFRED (1829–1907) , See also:English zoologist, was See also:born at See also:Geneva on the 11th 'of See also:June 1829. In 3854 he was elected travelling See also:fellow of Magdalene See also:College, See also:Cambridge, of which he had been an undergraduate, and subsequently visited many parts of the See also:world, including See also:Lapland, See also:Iceland, See also:Spitsbergen, the See also:West Indies and See also:North See also:America. In 1866 he became the first See also:professor of See also:zoology and See also:comparative See also:anatomy at Cambridge, a position which he retained till his See also:death. His services to See also:ornithology and zoogeography were recognized by the Royal Society in 1900, when it awarded him a Royal See also:medal. He wrote many books, including Zoology of See also:Ancient See also:Europe (1862), Ootheca Wolleyana (begun in 1864), Zoology (1872), and a See also:Dictionary of Birds (1893-1896). The last, still a See also:standard See also:work, was an amplification of the numerous articles on birds which he contributed to the 9th edition of the See also:Encyclopaedia Britannica, and which with comparatively slight revision. are retained in the See also:present edition. He contributed many See also:memoirs to scientific See also:societies, and edited The See also:Ibis (i865-187o), the Zoological See also:Record (1870-1872), and See also:Yarrell's See also:British Birds (1871–1882). He died at Cambridge on the 7th of June 1907.

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