IN MEMORIAM. 
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PROFESSOR ALFRED NEWTON, F.R.S. 
AND MR. HOWARD SAUNDERS. 
In Memoriam. 
It is with sincere regret that we have to record the death of 
our valued Hon. Member, Professor Alfred Newton. F.R.S., 
which took place in Cambridge, on 7th July, 1907. 
Professor Newton was born at Geneva in 1829, and was 
the son of William Newton of Elveden Hall, Suffolk, by 
Elizabeth, daughter of R. S. Milnes of Fryston, Yorkshire. 
His early youth was spent at Elveden, and he resided there 
until he entered Magdalene College, Cambridge, where he 
graduated in 1853 ; he secured the prize for English Essays 
in both 1852 and ’53, and was appointed travelling fellow of 
his College, visiting N. America and the West Indies; he also 
travelled in Iceland and Lapland, and in 1864 with Sir Edward 
Birkbeck paid a visit to Spitzbergen. On many of his summer 
holidays he accompanied the late Henry Evans yachting to 
the West coast of Scotland, but an unfortunate accident many 
years ago, producing chronic lameness, greatly impeded 
active exercise, much to his regret ; but the experience acquired 
in his foreign travel, during which the pursuit of his favourite 
study was always to the fore, stood him in good stead in 
after life. 
In 1S66 Newton was elected Professor of Zoology and 
Comparative Anatomy by his University, a chair which he 
held till his death, with great advantage to the study of 
zoology and distinction to himself. Of his many contribu- 
tions to his favourite science of Ornithology it is not necessary 
to speak here, they are so well known and have already been 
enumerated in the memoirs which have appeared ; but in 
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