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British paleontologist
Portrait of Richard Bullen Newton (1920)
Richard Bullen Newton,
ISO, (23 February 1854 – 23 January 1926) was a British
paleontologist who was between 1910 and 1912 president of the
Malacological Society of London and the
Conchological Society of Great Britain & Ireland.
[1]
Newton is buried at
City of Westminster Cemetery, Hanwell.
[2]
The
World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) lists 24 marine genera and species named by him.
[3]
- B. B. Woodward, 1926. Richard Bullen Newton, I.S.O., F.G.S., etc., 1854-1925 [sic.]. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London 17(2-3): 69-70
- B. B. Woodward, 1926. Richard Bullen Newton, I.S.O. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 82(3): xlix-l.
- J. R. le B. Tomlin, 1926. Obituary notice: R. B. Newton. Journal of Conchology 18(1): 11-12