George Newport
George Newport FRS (4 February 1803, Canterbury – 7 April 1854, London)[1] was an English entomologist. He is especially noted for his studies utilizing the microscope and his skills in dissection.
Biography
[edit ]He was the first of four children of William Newport (1777-1843), a local wheelwright, and Sarah Gillham.[2] He was educated at London University and at the College of Surgeons.[3] He was President of the Entomological Society of London (1843–1844) and also a member of the Ray Society. Newport was awarded with the Royal Medal 1836 and with the Royal Society Bakerian Medal 1841. He is buried in Kensal Green Cemetery, London.
Works
[edit ]He was one of the most skilled anatomists of his time, and his researches on the structure of insects and other arthropods are notable. His publications include:[3]
- On the Respiration of Insects (1836)
- "Insecta," in Todd's Cyclopædia of Anatomy and Physiology (1839)[4]
- On the Use of Antennæ of Insects (1840)
- List of Specimens of Myriopoda in the British Museum (1844)
- Monograph of the Class Myriopoda, Order Chilopoda (1845)
- On the Impregnation of the Ovum in the Amphibia (1851)
Newport wrote on the structure, relations, and development of the nervous and circulatory systems, and on the existence of a complete circulation of the blood in vessels, in Myriapoda and macrourous Arachnida in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London First series. 1843: 243-302; see p. 270. He published researches on the impregnation of the ovum in the Amphibia; and on the early stages of development of the embryo. Phil. Trans. R. Soc 144, 229-244. (1854) Newport wrote on the Organs of Reproduction, and the Development of the Myriopoda in Phil. Trans. R. Soc. And he wrote on the Nervous System of the Sphinx ligustri , Linn., (Part II) During the Latter Stages of its Pupa and its Imago State, and on the Means by Which its Development is Affected Phil. Trans. R. Soc.
References
[edit ]- ^ Coggon, Jennifer D. (4 October 2007). "Newport, George (1803–1854), entomologist" . Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/20034 . Retrieved 31 July 2019. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ^ "Oxford Index". Archived from the original on 18 October 2018. Retrieved 26 April 2014.
- ^ a b "Newport, George" . New International Encyclopedia . 1905.
- ^ Newport, George (1839). Insecta: From the Cyclopædia of Anatomy and Physiology. Marchant. (128 pages)
- Coggon, Jennifer D. "Newport, George". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/20034. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- Also see Coggon, J. "Sperm-Force: Naturphilosophie and George Newport’s Quest to Discover the Secret of Fertilization." J Hist Biol 55, 615–687 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10739-022-09696-3
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