274 The Late Professor Newton.


birds, the results of which have been so ably dealt with by Mr.

Eagle Clarke.


In our owu special branch, Aviculture, he also took the

keenest interest, and used to keep a certain number of birds,

chiefly waterfowl, at Elveden, in his younger days. He was a

Fellow of the Royal, T.inuean and Zoological Societies, and re-

ceived in 1900, one of the Royal Society's Gold Medals and the

Gold Medal of the Linnean Society.


Newton's value to the world of Science, however, cannot

be measured alone by his published works, great though they be.

He was endowed with a fascinating personality, and possessed

that instinct for discovering each man's special bent, and en-

couraging it, and there must be man)' of the former under-

graduates, who studied at Cambridge during those forty-one

years in which he occupied the Professorial chair, who feel that

they owe no small part of their subsequent success in life to

his kindly help and encouragement.


His Sunday evening ' At Homes,' where the youngest

undergraduate was as equally welcome as the oldest don, will be

treasured memories in the minds of many now scattered through-

out the world. Many an expedition has been planned, and many

a young Zoologist has gone out into the world, stimulated to

energy by the quiet, but infectious enthusiasm of his Professor.


Although educated and brought up two generations ago,

his mind never grew old, but was alert and ever receptive to the

great changes continually taking place in scientific thought, but

at the same time he retained all those best qualities of the old

time gentleman, and remained courteous, quiet, unobtrusive,

and thorough in all he did and said. Kindest of friends, truest

of gentlemen, and best of ornithologists, his place will never

again be adequately filled. J. Iy. B.



On June 28th a Redshank {Totanus calidris) hatched a brood of

three chicks in the Waders' aviary at the Zoological Gardens. So far as we

are aware this is the first instance of this species breeding in captivity.



