Edwin Tulley Newton

Edwin Tulley Newton FRS FGS FZS (4 May 1840 – 28 January 1930) was a British paleontologist.

Lepidodiscus milleri, a fossil echinoderm[1]

Newton originally worked at handicrafts, but was able to attend Thomas Henry Huxley's lectures and by 1865, was appointed as his assistant. In 1882, he became a paleontologist to the "Geologic Survey", a position he retained until 1905. His early work included microscopic sectioning of coal and notable studies on cockroach brains.[2]

Later, he did work on chimaeroid fish fossils.[3] In 1893, Newton won the Lyell Medal. He was the president of the Geologists' Association in 1896–1898 and the president of the Palaeontographical Society from 1921 to 1928.[2] Newton was elected Fellow of the Geological Society in 1873, Zoological Society of London in 1885, and Fellow of the Royal Society in 1893.[4]

The standard author abbreviation E.T.Newton is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[5]

References

  1. ^ Sharman, G.; Newton, E.T. (1892). "On a new form of Agelacrinites (Lepidodiscus Milleri, n. sp.) from the Lower Carboniferous Limestone of Cumberland". Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society. 48 (1–4): 150–152. doi:10.1144/GSL.JGS.1892.048.01-04.13. S2CID 128582521.
  2. ^ a b w., A. S. (1932). "Edwin Tulley Newton. 1840-1930". Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society. 1: 4–7. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1932.0002.
  3. ^ Newton, E.Tulley (1876). "On two Chimaeroid Jaws from the Lower Greensand of New Zealand". Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society. 32 (1–4): 326–331. doi:10.1144/GSL.JGS.1876.032.01-04.38. S2CID 129831222.
  4. ^ "NEWTON, Edwin Tulley". Who's Who. Vol. 59. 1907. p. 1300.
  5. ^ International Plant Names Index.  E.T.Newton.


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