Alfred Newton Papers

Alfred Newton (1829-1907)

Collection of his ornithological pamphlets and printed papers. Presented to the Newton Library by L.A. Curtis Edwards, Wisbech Museum, 1942 [1] Psittaci novae speciei ad conurum genus pertinentis descriptio, Thetford, 1859.

[2] Suggestions for saving parts of the skeletons of birds (reprinted from the Report of the

Smithsonian Institution, 1860.

[3] 'Suggestions for forming collections of birds' eggs', in Smithsonian miscellaneous

collections, [1860], pp. 10-22.

[4] On the possibility of taking an ornithological census (reprinted from The Ibis, APR

1861).

[5] On the possibility of taking a zoological census (reprinted from Journal of the

Proceedings of the Linnean Society, 1861).

[6] On the zoology of ancient Europe: a paper read before the Cambridge Philosophical

Society, 31st March, 1862. [7] Remarks on the Fringilla incerta of Risso (reprinted from Proceedings of the

Zoological Society of London, 8 APR 1862).

[8] On two new birds from Madagascar (reprinted from Proceedings of the Zoological

Society of London, 12 MAY 1863).

[9] Remarks on the exhibition of a natural mummy of Alca impennis (reprinted from

Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 10 NOV 1863).

[10] On the breeding of the green sandpiper (reprinted from Proceedings of the

Zoological Society of London, 8 DEC 1863).

[11] On the irruption of Pallas's sand-grouse in 1863 (reprinted from The Ibis, APR

1864).

[12] On a remarkable discovery of Didine bones in Rodriguez (reprinted from Proc.

Zoological Soc. London, 28 NOV 1865).

[13] List of animals collected at Mohambo, Madagascar, by Mr. W.T. Gerrard (reprinted

from Proc. Zoological Soc. London, 12 DEC 1865).

[14] Supplement to a report on the extinct Didine birds of the Mascarene Islands (reprint-

ed from the Report of the British Association for the Advencement of Science, 1867).

[15] Remarks on Prof. Huxley's proposed classification of birds (reprinted from The Ibis,

JAN 1868).

[16] The Zoological aspect of Game Laws (British Association, Section D, AUG 1868).

[17] The Strickland Collection in the University of Cambridge (reprinted from The Ibis,

JUL 1869).

[18] On existing remains of the gare-fowl (reprinted from The Ibis, APR 1870).

[19] On Cricetus nigricans as a European species (reprinted from Proc. Zoological Soc.

London, 12 MAY 1870).

[20] On a method of registering natural history observations (reprinted from

Transactions of Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists' Society, 1870).

[21] 'Prof. Newton exhibited a series of eggs collected by the German North-Pole

Expedition ' (reprinted from Proc. Zoological Soc. London, 20 JUN 1871).

[22] On a remarkable sexual peculiarity in an Australian species of duck (reprinted from

Proc. Zoological Soc. London, 7 NOV 1871).

[23] Second supplementary report on the extinct birds of the Mascarene Islands

(reprinted from BAAS Report, 1872).

[24] On the great northern falcons (reprinted from Annals and Magazine of Natural

History, DEC 1873).

[25] Notes on birds which have been found in Greenland (unspecified publication, n.d.).

[26] 'Professor Newton exhibited tracings of some unpublished sketches of the

Dodo ' (reprinted from Proc. Zoological Soc. London, 4 MAY 1875).

[27] Note on Palaeornis exsul (reprinted from The Ibis, JUL 1875).

[28] On some ornithological errors in the 'Reliquiae Aquitanicae' (reprinted from Annals

and Magazine of Natural History, FEB 1876).

[29] Address to the Biological Section of the British Association. Glasgow, September

6th, 1876.

[30] 'The Dodo' (reprinted from Encyclopaedia Britannica, 9th edn., JUN 1877).

[31] The nomenclature of thegroups of Ratitae (reprinted from Annals and Magazine of

Natural History, DEC 1877).

[32] Remarks on exhibition of a stone sent by Mr. Caldwell (reprinted from Proc.

Zoological Soc. London, 5 MAR 1878).

[33] Hawking in Norfolk (reprinted from Lubbock's Fauna of Norfolk, 2nd edn., 1878).

[34] AN, obituary tribute to Lord Tweeddale (reprinted from Proc. Zoological Soc.

London, 14 JAN 1879).

[35] Prof. Newton on Alectoroenas nitidissima (reprinted from Proc. Zoological Soc.

London, 14 JAN 1879).

[36] On some moot points in ornithological nomenclature (reprinted from Annals and

magazine of natural history, AUG 1879).

[37] Prof. Newton on chaetura cauducata (reprinted from Proc. Zoological Soc. London,

6 JAN 1880).

[38] Alfred and Edward Newton, List of the birds of Jamaica (reprinted from the

Handbook of Jamaica for 1881).

[39] Prof. Newton on an egg of Cariama cristata (reprinted from Proc. Zoological Soc.

London, 4 JAN 1881).

[40] Prof. Newton on the genus Hypherpes (reprinted from Proc. Zoological Soc.

London, 15 MAR 1881).

[41] Ornithological nomenclature. An addendum to 'The Ibis' for January, 1883.

[42] Mr Seebohm's "Fugitive observations", 19 MAY 1883.

[43] Prof. Newton on Bulweria columbina (reprinted from Proc. Zoological Soc. London,

15 NOV 1887).

[44] Early days of Darwinism, n.d.

[45] Notes on some species of Zosterops (reprinted from Ibis, OCT 1888)

[46] On the irruption of Syrrhaptes paradoxus [BAAS, Section D, n.d.]

[47] Obituary. Mr. J.H. Gurney (reprinted from Ibis, JUL 1890).

[48] Notes on some old museums (reprinted from Annual Report of the Museums

Association, 1891).

[49] Errors concerning the sanderling (addendum to Ibis, JUL 1892).

[50] Note on the occurrence of the sanderling in New South Wales (reprinted from

Records of Australian Museum, Vol. 2, 1892).

[51] On a new species of Drepanis (reprinted from Proc. Zoological Soc. London, 7 NOV

1893).

[52] On the great flood of 1852-3 in south-western Norfolk (reprinted from Transactions

of Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists' Society, 5, 1893).

[53] Notes on "A Bill to amend the Wild Birds' Protection Act, 1880" (reprinted from

Annals of Scottish Natural History, Apr 1894

[54] On a rare bird from the Sandwich Islands (reprinted from Proc. Zoological Soc.

London, 15 DEC 1896).

[55] Sir Edward Newton – obituary (reprinted from Proceedings of the Linnaean Society,

1896-97).

[56] Sir Edward Newton – obituary (reprinted from Ibis, JUL 1897).

[57] On some new or rare birds' eggs (reprinted from Proc. Zoological Soc. London, 16

NOV 1897).

[58] Coloured figures of the birds of the British islands. Issued by Lord Lilford Preface

(London, 1897).

[59] [Memoir of John Wolley – pp. ix-xxxix].

[60] Alca impennis (extract from Ootheca Wolleyana, Vol. 2, 1905).

[61] Leguat's giant bird (4th International Congress of Ornithologists, 1905).

[62] On the Orcadian home of the Garefowl (reprinted from Ibis, OCT 1898).

[63] Appendix. The publications on natural history of John Wolley, except those included

in the body of the work.

[64] Fourth International Congress of Ornithologists. Books, letters and papers exhibited

in the Philosophical Library 20 June, 1905.

[65] Edward Newton, Discovery of the remains of the Didus solitaris at Rodrigues. Taken

from the Mauritius Almanach and Register for 1869 (Mauritius, 1868).

[66] Edward Newton, On the reported discovery of Dodo's bones in a cavern in

Mauritius (reprinted from Proc. Zoological Soc. London, 20 MAY 1890).

[67] Report of the Committee appointed for the purpose of continuing the investigation

on the desirability of establishing a "Close Time" for the preservation of indigenous

animals (reprinted from BAAS Report, 1872).

[68] [Further report on Close Time] (BAAS, 1873).

[69] [Further report on Close Time] (BAAS, 1876).

[70] [Further report on Close Time] (BAAS, n.d.).

[71] [Further report on Close Time] (BAAS, 1878).

[72] Report of the Committee appointed for the purpose of making a digest of the

observations on the migrations of birds at lighthouses and lightvessels 1880-1887

(BAAS, Liverpool meeting, 1896).

[73] J.H. Blasius, A list of the birds of Europe reprinted from the German, with the

author's corrections (Norwich, 1862).

[74] Fourth International Congress of Ornithologists, 1905. Effects of insularity

illustrated by birds of (a) Madagascar and Mascarene Islands; (b) Sandwich Islands 20 June, 1905.

[75] On a new bird from the Isle of Madagascar. By Dr. G. Hartlaub (reprinted from

Proc. Zoological Soc. London, 13 MAY 1862).

[76] John Milne, Relics of the Great Auk on Funk Island (reprinted from The Field of

March 27 and April 3 and 10, 1875).

[77] C. Davies Sherborn, On the dates of Temminck and Laugier's 'Planches coloriées'

(reprinted from Ibis, OCT 1898).

[78] Scott B. Wilson, On three undescribed species of the genus Hemignathus,

Lichtenstein (reprinted from Annals and Magazine of Natural History, NOV 1889).

[79] W. Meves, On the snipes' "neighing" or humming noise, and on its tail-feathers'

sytematic value translated and communicated by John Wolley (reprinted from Proc.

Zoological Soc. London, 13 APR 1858).

[80] Bird migration in Great Britain and Ireland. — Fourth interim report of the

Committee (BAAS, Section D, Glasgow, 1901).

[81] Bird migration in Great Britain and Ireland. — Fifth interim report of the

Committee (BAAS, Section D, Belfast, 1902).

[82] Bird migration in Great Britain and Ireland. — Sixth and final report of the

Committee (BAAS, Section D, Southport, 1903).

[83] Alfred and Edward Newton, On the osteology of the Solitaire or Didine bird of the

Island of Rodriguez, Pezophaps solitaria Communicated by P.L. Sclater (1868).

[84] Edward Newton and John Willis Clark, On the osteology of the Solitaire [1878].

Other pamphlets:

[85] Th. Thoroddsen, Oversigt over de islandske Vulcaners Historie (Copenhagen, 1882)