XXiV ; PREFACE. 
than any of his contemporaries to foster and encourage a love 
of natural science. The ‘ Zoologist,’ alone, will ever remain a 
monument of his indefatigable industry; and, as a storehouse 
of facts for the working naturalist, will be continually quoted in 
all future works bearing on its special branches of English 
Zoology.” 
«We, his friends and admirers, have lost one whose equal we 
may vainly seek, for he was a man of wonderful power of mind, 
of great judgment, a profound thinker, an able writer; and, 
from his great experience in editorship, better qualified than 
any of our naturalists for conducting a popular journal like the 
‘ Zoologist.’ Ever ready to instruct and encourage, too, the 
student of Nature; never censorious or dictatorial, though his 
patience at times must have been sorely tried.”’ 
“The name of Edward Newman is inseparably associated 
with the list of those who have themselves advanced natural 
science, and who have done all in their power to help and 
encourage others in the field in which they have so successfully 
laboured.” 
‘‘He was esteemed and valued by all who knewhim. His 
life was usefully and honourably spent in the pursuit and 
dissemination of knowledge; and the results of his labours, 
as published, are a more durable and honourable monument 
than either bronze or marble.” 
