Edward Newman
1801–76
Naturalist. Founder of the Entomological Club, 1826. Founder of the Entomological Society, 1833; president 1853–4. Editor of several natural history journals; natural history editor of the Field, 1858–76. Published works on entomology and on ferns. Also wrote under the pseudonym Rusticus. Held anti-evolutionary views.
Source
ODNB.
Bibliography
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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