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EDWIN TULLEY NEWTON, who died in London on Jan. 28, aged nearly ninety, was for many years a leader in the study of fossils in Great Britain. He was born in London in May 1840, and at an early age was apprenticed to a handicraft which gave him special skill in designing and carrying out delicate manipulations. He was at the same time deeply interested in natural history, and was fortunate in attracting the notice of Huxley, whose lectures he attended at the Royal School of Mines in Jermyn Street. Eventually, in 1865, he became assistant to Huxley, who was then naturalist to the Geological Survey, and henceforth he was able to follow his inclination and devote himself to the study of life, both recent and fossil. His official work, however, led to his dealing chiefly with fossils, and in 1882, when Mr. Robert Etheridge left for the British Museum, he was appointed palæontologist to the Geological Survey, a position which he occupied until his retirement under the age-limit in 1905.
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W., A. Mr. E. T. Newton, F.R.S. Nature 125, 280–281 (1930). https://doi.org/10.1038/125280a0
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