| Authorised form of name | Newton; Alfred (1829 - 1907) |
| Dates | 1829 - 1907 |
| Place of birth | Geneva, Switzerland |
| Date of birth | 11 June 1829 |
| Date of death | 07/06/1907 |
| Dates and places | Burial:
St Giles' cemetery, now Ascension Cemetery, Cambridge |
| Research field | Ornithology |
| Activity | Education:
Magdalene College, Cambridge. BA (1853), MA
Career:
Fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge; Drury Travelling Fellow, studying ornithology in Lapland and Iceland (1854-1863); Professor of Zoology and Comparative Anatomy, University of Cambridge (1866-1907); died of heart disease
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| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 02/06/1870 |
| Royal Society activity | Royal Society roles:
VP 1889-1891
Medals and prizes:
Royal Medal 1900 |
| Relationships | Son of William Newton of Elvedon, Suffolk, and his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Richard Sclater Milnes of Fryston Hall, Yorkshire; cousin of Richard Monckton Miles (FRS 1868); unmarried |
| Sources | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc Series B 1908 vol 80 pp xlv-xlix signed by A G
References:
Sir Gavin de Beer, ed, 'Some Unpublished Letters of Charles Darwin' in NR 1959 vol 14 pp 12-66 |
| Virtual International Authority File | http://viaf.org/viaf/64772155 |
| Royal Society code | NA3013 |
| Reference number | Title | Date |
| MM/21/17 | Letter from Alfred Newton to AB Hewetson | 17 September 1879 |
| EC/1870/07 | Newton, Alfred: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| NLB/3/58 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Alfred Newton, Fellow of the Royal Society, Magdalene College, Cambridge | 26 February 1889 |
| NLB/3/335 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Alfred Newton, Fellow of the Royal Society | 13 May 1889 |
| NLB/3/1002 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Alfred Newton, Fellow of the Royal Society | 9 December 1889 |
| NLB/3/1070 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Michael Foster, [Royal Society] | 3 January 1890 |
| NLB/8/419 | Copy letter from an unknown correspondent, to Messrs Dulau & Company | 23 October 1893 |
| NLB/7/200 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Alfred Newton, Fellow of the Royal Society | 20 December 1892 |
| NLB/11/110 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Alfred Newton, Fellow of the Royal Society | 23 April 1895 |
| NLB/9/393 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Alfred Newton, Fellow of the Royal Society | 11 May 1894 |
| NLB/11/70 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Alfred Newton, Fellow of the Royal Society | 10 April 1895 |
| NLB/22/821 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor [Alfred] Newton, [Fellow of the Royal Society] | 28 July 1901 |
| NLB/12/457 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Alfred Newton, Fellow of the Royal Society, Magdalene College, Cambridge | 21 February 1896 |
| NLB/12/814 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Alfred Newton, [Fellow of the Royal Society] | 11 May 1896 |
| NLB/14/469 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Alfred Newton and Dr Edward John Routh, Fellows of the Royal Society | 16 March 1897 |
| NLB/16/328 | Copy letter from Michael Foster, to Professor Alfred Newton, Fellow of the Royal Society, Chairman of the Managers Balfour Memorial Fund | 18 March 1898 |
| NLB/18/291 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor A Newton, Fellow of the Royal Society | 20 February 1899 |
| NLB/21/360 | Copy letter from Arthur William Rucker, to Professor Alfred Newton, Fellow of the Royal Society | 5 November 1900 |
| NLB/23/1/617 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Alfred Newton, Fellow of the Royal Society | 14 December 1901 |
| NLB/27/175 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Alfred Newton, Fellow of the Royal Society | 15 July 1903 |
| NLB/31/801 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Alfred Newton, Fellow of the Royal Society, Magdalene College, Cambridge | 15 November 1905 |
| NLB/35/522 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Messrs Harrison & Sons | 8 June 1907 |
| NLB/35/643 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Dr Hans Friedrich Gadow, Fellow of the Royal Society | 24 June 1907 |
| MC/10/197 | Letter from Alfred Newton, 10 Beaufort Gardens, to [Thomas Henry] Huxley, [Secretary of the Royal Society] | 19 January 1875 |
| RR/6/200 | Referee's report by Thomas Henry Huxley, on a paper 'On the osteology of the solitaire or Didine Bird of the Island of Rodriguez, Pezophaps solitaria ( Gmel.)' by Alfred Newton and Edward Newton | 7 July 1868 |
| NLB/7/530 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Alfred Newton, Fellow of the Royal Society, Magdalene College, Cambridge | 7 March 1893 |
| NLB/11/196 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Alfred Newton, Fellow of the Royal Society | 13 May 1895 |
| NLB/8/405 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Michael Foster, [Royal Society] | 20 October 1893 |
| MC/16/356 | Letter from Alfred Newton, Magdelene College, Cambridge to the Royal Society | 1 December 1896 |
| PP/14/26 | Paper, 'Contribution to the anatomy of fishes. I. The air-bladder and Weberian ossicles in the Siluridae' by Thomas William Bridge and Alfred Cort Haddon | 1889 |
| MC/9/140 | Letter from Alfred Newton, Royal Society, Burlington House, London, to [George Gabriel] Stokes, [Secretary of the Royal Society] | November 1870 |
| MC/9 | Volume 9 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society | 1870-June 1873 |
| MC/10/202 | Letter from Alfred Newton, 10 Beaufort Gardens, to [Thomas Henry] Huxley, [Secretary of the Royal Society] | 24 January 1875 |
| MC/10 | Volume 10 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society | July 1873-1876 |
| RR/6/201 | Referee's report by Richard Owen, on a paper 'On the osteology of the solitaire or Didine Bird of the Island of Rodriguez, Pezophaps solitaria ( Gmel.)' by Alfred Newton and Edward Newton | 19 August 1868 |
| PP/23/31 | Paper, 'Note on the production of sounds by the air-bladder of certain siluroid fishes' by Thomas William Bridge and Alfred Cort Haddon | 1894 |
| MC/16/354 | Letter from Alfred Newton, Magdelene College, Cambridge to [Herbert] Rix | 24 November 1896 |