Edward Newton

See also: Newton

Sir Edward Newton is a colonial administrator and a British ornithologist , born in November 1832 and dead the April 25th 1897 with Lowestoft.

His/her brother is Alfred Newton (1829-1907), professor of zoology and comparative anatomy with Cambridge.

Edward works for the British colonial administration. It is in station with the Mauritius of 1859 with 1877, then, of 1877 with 1883, with the Jamaica.

It is one of the founders of the British Ornithologists' Union and its newspaper The Ibis .

It observes and collects many specimens that it sends to his brother, in particular of species disappeared like Dodo ( Raphus cucullatus ) and the recluse from Rodrigues ( Pezophaps solitaria ).

Edward alone or with his/her brother makes appear many scientific articles. Among those, it is necessary to quote an important article on the birds of the island of Holy-Cross in the the Caribbean. It also publishes, of 1862 with 1869, several articles on the birds of Madagascar and the islands Mascareignes, of which new species. It makes appear in 1881 a list of the birds of the Jamaica.

The observations of Edward Newton allow considerable progresses in the knowledge of the avifauna of the area.

The Malagasy Crécerelle ( Falco newtoni ) was dedicated to him by John Henry Gurney (1819-1890) in 1863 starting from a specimen collected by Edward Newton.

Source

Bo Beolens and Michael Watkins (2003). Whose Bird? Common Bird Names and the People They Commemorate. Yale University Close (New Haven and London): 400 p.

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