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“for a regiment of Auks to have landed at any state of the 
tide, and to have marched in line up the gentle ascent.”’ 
From 1865 to 1870 Newton edited the second series of 
‘The Ibis,’ and we may be sure that due attention was paid 
to the notices of works on ornithology, whether published at 
home or abroad. He was ably supported, as the Editors 
have been at all times, and, in resigning the editorship in 
October 1870, pleaded that engagements no less pressing 
than numerous had for some time past urged upon him the 
advisability of retirmg, and he announced Osbert Salvin as 
his successor. 
His retirement was scarcely to be wondered at, for 
Professor Newton was becoming a public character, and 
must have had his hands full of work for some time. He 
was never idle, and if not oceupied with his students at 
Cambridge, he was either fighting for the cause of Bird- 
Protection in London and elsewhere, or writing lcng articles, 
especially in the ‘ Field,’ or providing an appendix to this or 
that publication. Whenever there was a question of Birds 
everybody turned towards Newton. He had to prepare an 
appendix to Baring-Gould’s ‘Iceland,’ to the ‘ Arctic 
Manual,’ to Lubbock’s ‘Fauna of Norfolk,’ &c. This last 
appendix, dealing with the subject of ‘ Hawking in Norfolk,’ 
is particularly interesting, as Newton had bad considerable 
personal experience in this matter, having frequently accom- 
panied his former neighbour, the late Edward Clough 
Newcome (an original member of the B.O.U.) on his 
expeditions. This gentleman, as is well known, endeavoured 
to resuscitate the favourite sport of the Middle Ages, and 
for some years carried on the pursuit with considerable 
success in the wilds of South-west Norfolk. 
When not specially engaged at Cambridge, Newton was 
by no means neglectful of the Royal, the Zoological, and other 
Societies, and was often a conspicuous figure at the meetings 
of the British Association. He also took much interest in 
the ‘Zoological Record.” He was chairman of the Close- 
Time Committee and of the British Association Committee 
on the Migration of Birds. Elected F.R.S. in 1870, he was 
