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was done for the sake of his beloved science. All loose or 
florid writing or any departure from the strict logic of fact 
was abhorrent to him, and of him it might truly be said, 
“ No life can be dreary whose work is a delight.” As to 
Professor Newton’s helpfulness to beginners the writer before 
quoted, referring to his Sunday Evenings which had long been 
a Cambridge institution, says, “ Undergraduates interested 
in science were welcomed by him. and to a large number of 
Cambridge men these pleasant evenings must form one of 
the happiest memories of their student days. But Professor 
Newton’s evenings did more than give pleasure ; his kindly 
encouragement was educational in a better sense than often 
falls to that unpleasant word, and was of real service in keeping 
alive a love of Natural History in Cambridge.” He considered 
it part of the duty attaching to his University appointment, 
as well as the pleasure it afforded him, to exert himself to 
the utmost to encourage the study of Zoology. 
Professor Newton was elected an honorary member of our 
Society in 1869, and Vice-President in 1901. and has repeatedly 
shown his interest in our welfare; in 1870 he contributed his 
first paper to our ‘ Transactions,’ “ On a Method of Registering 
Natural History Observations.” This paper was the result 
of a series of observations taken at Elveden, extending over 
a period of ten years, by himself and his brother Edward 
(the latter in after years a President of our Society). It is 
a standing monument to the care and energy for which its 
compilers were so distinguished, the recorder being only 
21 years of age when it was commenced. It would occupy 
too much space to describe the method adopted in this register 
for which I must refer you to the original papers, but the 
results of an analysis of the records were as surprising as they 
were interesting at the time, enabling the observers to announce 
that the Song Thrush was “ one of the most regular migrants 
among birds, .... a fact which had been neglected by almost 
every English historian of the species.” Equally interesting 
facts with regard to the economy of the Robin were revealed. 
In 1876 Professor Newton contributed an interesting paper 
“ On the Naturalisation of the Edible Frog in Norfolk ” 
