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great importance was attached to his symptoms, till his death, as 

 noted above, was made known to his large circle of friends. The 

 funeral service took place on the 4th June, 1907, and the 

 cremation at Woking followed. [B. D. J.] 



Feederic Moore, D.Sc, F.Z.S., who was elected an Associate 

 of the Linnean Society in 1881, died May 10th, 1907, at the age 

 of 77. He was a distinguished entomologist, and a pi-ominent 

 Fellow of the Entomological Society of Loudon for more than 

 fifty years. For more than thirty years he was a member of 

 the Staff of the East India Company's Museum, and his principal 

 memoirs dealt with Oriental Lepidoptera. [A. D,} 



Professor Alfred Neavtok was the fifth son of "William Newton 

 of Elveden Hall, Suffolk, who, for many years, represented the 

 Borough of Ipswich in Parliament, and of Elizabeth, daughter of 

 E. S. Milnes of Eryston, Yoi-kshire, who sat at one time as 

 Member of Parliament for the City of York. Through his mother 

 he was thus related to the late Lord Houghton and to the present 

 Earl of Crewe. 



Alfred Newton was born on June 11th, 1829, at Geneva. He 

 was educated privately until he entered Magdalene College, Cam- 

 bridge ; which for the next 57 years was to prove his home. 



Newton graduated in 1853, and shortly afterwards began a 

 series of extensive travels, visiting (amongst other countries) 

 Iceland, Lapland, North America, and the West Indies, where 

 his family at one time held large estates. In 1864, accompanied 

 by Sir Edward Birkbeck, he made an expedition to Spitsbergen. 

 He was a keen yachtsman, and up till quite recent times used to 

 enjoy his summer holiday yachting with his old friend Mr. H. 

 Evans of Derby, on the west coast of Scotland. In the interval 

 of his travels. Professor Newton resided at Cambridge ; and in 

 1865, when the University M-as moved to change Professor 

 Clark's Professorship of Anatomy into two, one of Human Anatomy 

 and a second of Zoology and Comparative Anatomy, he entered the 

 list against Dr. Drosier of Gonville and Caius College, M-ho had 

 been for some years Deputy to Professor Clark ; and supported 

 by a long list of testimonials from Owen, Gould, Gray, Rolleston,. 

 and others, he was successful in attaining the Chair by a majority 

 of 28, the electors being the resident Masters of Art. At that time 

 the study of Natural Science was not popular in the University. In 

 the year in which Professor Newton entered upon his duties (1866). 

 but 9 candidates appeared in the Natural Sciences Tripos, compared 

 with over 200 at the present time. This difference is due, to some 

 extent, to the wide and liberal spirit with which Newton exercised 

 his functions. Though regarded as a Conservative by many people 

 — and in fact in his politics he was in most things a Tory of the 

 old school, and in private life adverse to change in his established 

 order of life or surroundings — in scientific matters he M'as always, 

 after weighing them over carefully, prepared to accept new ideas. 



