Richard Bullen Newton

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.

Portrait of Richard Bullen Newton (1920)

Newton is buried at City of Westminster Cemetery, Hanwell.

The World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) lists 24 marine genera and species named by him.

Selected publications

• "On the necessity for the abandonment of the generic name Cyclostoma, with suggestions regarding others involved in this genus". Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 7 (6). 1891.
• Systematic list of the F. E. Edwards collection of British Oligocene and Eocene mollusca in the British Museum (Natural History). London, British Museum. 1891.
• "On some Tertiary Foraminifera from Borneo collected by Professor Molengraaff and the late Mr. A. H. Everett, and their comparison with similar forms from Sumatra". Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 3 (7). 1899.
• "Eocene Shells from Nigeria". Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 15 (7). 1905.
• "On some Jurassic Mollusca from Arabia". Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 2 (8). 1908.
• "On some freshwater fossils from Central South Africa". Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 5 (9). 1920.
• "On a marine Jurassic fauna from Central Arabia". Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 7 (9). 1921.
• On a marine Jurassic fauna from Central Arabia; Annals And Magazine of Natural History 7 (9), 1921

Bibliography

• 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