Edwin Tulley Newton was a British paleontologist. He originally worked at handicrafts, but was able to attend Thomas Henry Huxley's lectures and by 1865 was appointed as his assistant. In 1882 he became paleontologist to the "Geologic Survey", a position he retained until 1905. His early work included microscope sections of coal and notable studies on cockroach

Cockroach

Cockroaches are insects of the order Blattaria or Blattodea, of which about 30 species out of 4,500 total are associated with human habitations...

 brains. Later he did work on Chimæroid

Chimaera

Chimaeras are cartilaginous fish in the order Chimaeriformes, known informally as ghost sharks, ratfish , spookfish , or rabbitfishes...

 fish fossils. In 1893 he won the Lyell Medal

Lyell Medal

The Lyell Medal is a prestigious annual scientific medal given by the Geological Society of London, equal in status to the Murchison Medal, awarded on the basis of research to an Earth Scientist of exceptional quality...

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