Edward Newman (entomologist)

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Edward Newman, 1863

Edward Newman (born May 13, 1801 in Hampstead , England , † June 12, 1876 ) was an English entomologist , botanist and writer . Its official botanical author abbreviation is " Newman ".

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Newman was born in Hampstead in 1801 to a Quaker family. Both parents were enthusiastic scientists and thus inspired their son to continue studying, especially after he started school in Painswick . He left school at 16 to work in his father's shop in Guildford . In 1826 he moved to Deptford to take over a rope- making business. Here he met many of the leading entomologists of the day and co-founded the Entomological Club . In 1832 he was elected editor of the club magazine, The Entomological Magazine , and became a member of the Linnean Society of London and a founding member of the Royal Entomological Society of London the following year .

He married in 1840 and published the first edition of A History of British Ferns and Allied Plants . He became a partner in the London printing company Luxford & Co. and was a printer and publisher of natural history and science books. He later also became the natural history editor of The Field , editor of The Zoologist, and editor of The Entomologist .

Newman put forward the shipping theory , in which he took the view that butterflies such as the marshmallow butterfly ( Pontia daplidice ), the oleander hawk ( Daphnis nerii ) and the wandering blue blue ( Lampides boeticus ) can fly across the English Channel from mainland Europe to the British Isles. For this theory on the phenomenon of the migratory butterfly , however, he was laughed at by his colleagues.

In 1853 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina .

Works

  • Attempted division of British Insects into natural orders , The Entomological Magazine, Volume 2, 1834, pp. 379-431
  • A History of British Ferns and allied Plants (1840)
  • Proposed division of Neuroptera in two classes (1853)
  • Birds nesting (1861)
  • New Edition of Montagu's Ornithological Dictionary (1866)
  • Illustrated Natural History of British Moths (1869)
  • Illustrated Natural History of British Butterflies (1871).

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  • Michael A. Salmon: The Aurelian Legacy ISBN 0-946589-40-2
  • Mullens and Swann: A Bibliography of British Ornithology (1917)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Williams, Carrington Bonsor: The migrating flights of the insects. Introduction to the problem of the migration behavior of insects with special consideration of butterflies . Paul Parey, Hamburg, Berlin 1961, pp. 19 .
  2. Robert Zander : Zander hand dictionary of plant names . Ed .: Fritz Encke , Günther Buchheim, Siegmund Seybold . 13th, revised and expanded edition. Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 1984, ISBN 3-8001-5042-5 .