MEMOIR OP THE LATE SIR EDWAIU) NEWTON, M.A., K.C.M.G. 411 
success in after years, in relation to the Solitaire, the Dodo, and 
other extinct birds in the Mascarene Islands. It may be worth 
mentioning as indicative of their constant alertness, that in 1853, 
when driving from Elveden to Scoulton, and passing through the 
parish of Stow Bedon, the two brothers, attracted by their cry, 
detected a colony of Edible Frogs ; nothing came of this at the 
time, but the fact was imparted to tire writer (and perhaps others) 
that it might not be lost sight of; and in 1859 the details with 
Mr. Berney’s hitherto unpublished notes of their introduction to 
the county, were printed in ‘The Zoologist’ (p. 6538). In May, 
1876, Professor Newton again came upon some of these amphibians 
in another locality in the same parish. 
But these homo studies were to some extent interrupted by his 
entering at Magdalene College, Cambridge (where he graduated 
B.A. in 1857), soon however to be directed into a wider sphere, 
for in 1858 he went to the Island of St. Croix, in the West Indies, 
where lie resided for some months, as a result of which visit lie 
contributed to ‘The Ibis’ (the Journal of the British Ornithologists’ 
Union, of which he was one of eight founders who collected around 
them twelve others, making twenty original members) a series of 
papers (still in conjunction with his brother) on the birds of that 
Island. 
In 1859 he entered the Colonial Service, having been appointed 
Assistant Colonial Secretary of Mauritius, and was promoted to 
Auditor General in 1S63, and Colonial Secretary in 1868. In 1861 
he was sent to Madagascar on an Official Mission, and the next 
year he again visited that Island on his own account, communicating 
as usual the ornithological results of his visits to ‘ The Ibis.’ 
In 1864 he visited the Island of Rodriguez, the former home of 
the extinct Solitaire, where his knowledge of the osteology of birds 
enabled him to recognise, and subsequently have collected, valuable 
spoils of the extinct birds of that island possessing surpassing 
interest. He also visited the Seychelles with good results, and at 
various times contributed largely to the elucidation of the ancient 
fauna of the Mauritius, a task most congenial to him, as already 
mentioned with regard to his labours in the same direction in 
his early home. 
In 1875 he was made C.M.G., and in 1877 was transferred to 
Jamaica, holding the posts of Lieut.-Governor and Colonial Secretary 
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