Edward Newman (entomologist)

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Edward Newman
Newman in 1863
Born(1801-05-13)13 May 1801
Died12 June 1876(1876-06-12) (aged 75)

Edward Newman (13 May 1801 – 12 June 1876) was an

botanist
and writer.

Newman was born in

Entomological Society of London
.

In 1840 Newman was married and published the first edition of A History of British Ferns and Allied Plants. He became a partner in a firm of London printers, Luxford & Co., and became a printer and publisher of books on natural history and science. He later became the natural history editor of The Field, editor of

Chamber's Journal
.

Newman's Attempted division of British Insects into natural orders. The Entomological Magazine 2: 379-431(1834) establishes many new families and is therefore an important work of

scientific classification
.

Newman viewed the skeletons of

Pterosaurs not as reptiles but as marsupial bats. This was based on earlier suggestions that some pterosaur fossils showed tufts of hair, which suggested they could not be typical cold blooded reptiles. As a result, he published a reconstruction of pterosaurs as hairy animals in an 1843 edition of the Zoologist. This is, as far as is known, the first reconstruction of pterosaurs as hairy warm blooded creatures, which modern research suggests was actually the case. However they are now thought to be highly evolved and warm blooded reptiles and not marsupial bats. He argued, in this rather amusing article, that it was rather unlikely that his ideas were correct, since authorities like Georges Cuvier and William Buckland
thought pterosaurs were reptiles, but, even so, it was still possible that the experts were wrong and he got it right.

The standard author abbreviation Newman is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[2]

References

  1. OCLC 8502059 (all editions). Digital copy in Internet Archive
    .
  2. ^ International Plant Names Index.  Newman.

External links
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