Richard Bullen Newton Explained

Richard Bullen Newton, ISO, (23 February 1854 – 23 January 1926) was a British paleontologist who was between 1910 and 1912 president of the Malacological Society of London and the Conchological Society of Great Britain & Ireland.^[1]

Newton is buried at City of Westminster Cemetery, Hanwell.^[2]

The World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) lists 24 marine genera and species named by him.^[3]

Selected publications

1891 . On the necessity for the abandonment of the generic name Cyclostoma, with suggestions regarding others involved in this genus . Annals and Magazine of Natural History . 7 . 6.
Book: Systematic list of the F. E. Edwards collection of British Oligocene and Eocene mollusca in the British Museum (Natural History) . London, British Museum . 1891.
1899 . On some Tertiary Foraminifera from Borneo collected by Professor Molengraaff and the late Mr. A. H. Everett, and their comparison with similar forms from Sumatra . Annals and Magazine of Natural History . 3 . 7.
1905 . Eocene Shells from Nigeria . Annals and Magazine of Natural History . 15 . 7.
1908 . On some Jurassic Mollusca from Arabia . Annals and Magazine of Natural History . 2 . 8.
1920 . On some freshwater fossils from Central South Africa . Annals and Magazine of Natural History . 5 . 9.
1921 . On a marine Jurassic fauna from Central Arabia . Annals and Magazine of Natural History . 7 . 9.
On a marine Jurassic fauna from Central Arabia; Annals And Magazine of Natural History 7 (9), 1921

References

B. B. Woodward, 1926. Richard Bullen Newton, I.S.O., F.G.S., etc., 1854-1925 [sic.]. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London 17(2-3): 69-70
B. B. Woodward, 1926. Richard Bullen Newton, I.S.O. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 82(3): xlix-l.
J. R. le B. Tomlin, 1926. Obituary notice: R. B. Newton. Journal of Conchology 18(1): 11-12

Notes and References

http://www.bgs.ac.uk/discoveringGeology/geologyOfBritain/archives/pioneers/pioneers.cfc?method=viewRecord&personId=147 Richard Bullen Newton I.S.O., F.G.S.
https://www.westminster.gov.uk/hanwell-cemetery Hanwell Cemetery.
http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxlist Taxa named by Richard Bullen Newton