PREFACE. XXIU 



had a severe illness, from wliicli, altliougli unknown to all but 

 himself, he never entu-ely recovered : it preyed upon his spirits, 

 and lessened that mental grasp which had hitherto charac- 

 terized him. Towards the end of May, 1876, he again became 

 seriously ill ; and although at first it was thought that with his 

 vigorous constitution he would overcome the disease, as he had 

 done previously, he became worse. Further surgical assistance 

 was called in, but to no purpose ; and on the 12th of June, 

 1876, acutely conscious to the last, he passed peacefully away. 

 In his last illness he was patient, and without care or any 

 anxiety. He was interred at Nunhead Cemetery. 



Mr. Newman was a Fellow of the Linnean and Zoological 

 Societies, of the Eoyal Microscopical Society, and of the 

 Zoologico-Botanical Society of Vienna ; he was also an original 

 member and, in 1854, President of the Entomological Society of 

 London ; an honorary member of the Entomological Societies 

 of France and Pennsylvania, of the Botanical Society of Edin- 

 burgh, and of several minor societies : but the only title on 

 which he set value was that of Academias Caesarefe Naturte 

 Curiosorum, — the Imperial Academy of Leopold Charles of 

 Austria, consisting of the forty most distinguished naturalists 

 known to the council throughout the world ; each takes the 

 cognomen of one of the original members, — his was that of 

 "LatreiUe." Membership of this learned body conferred the 

 title of Doctor, but he was too modest to use the title. Ostenta- 

 tion of every kind was distasteful to him, and he derided it in 

 others ; indeed, he prided himself on the opposite extreme, and 

 his manner of life was especially simple and retiring. 



The following extracts, from kindly letters written by Mr. 

 Cordeaux, Captain Hadfield, Mr. Frederick Smith, and Dr. 

 Bowerbank, may fittingly be appended to this memoir, and are 

 but types of many. In writing this sketch of a useful life, 

 difi&culty has been felt in condensing the material that has 

 ofiered : much that would have added to its interest has been 

 reluctantly omitted for want of space. 



" His loss is no common one, for all who have kno's^Ti him for 

 so many years, through his writmgs and as a correspondent, 

 can testify to the invariable and ready way in which he imparted 

 information : he has done more in his long life of usefulness 



