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Income was almost exclusively derived from a single family, and never exceeded thirty pounds per annum. So circumstanced, his means were necessarily extremely circumscribed; but his habits were, happily, of the most frugal kind, and the most scanty lodging served him for all purposes of accommodation and study. But on the 1st July, 1847, Her Majesty was graciously pleased to grant him a pension of £100 a year, in consideration of his merits as a laborious and disinterested cultivator of science; and from this time, feeling his mind more tranquil in his improved worldly circumstances, he continued his labours more steadily and vigorously than ever, up to the day when he was stricken with his fatal illness.
That illness may truly be said to have been brought on by Mr. Newport's zeal for science. It had been his practice for some years to devote a day or two in the spring season to a search for frogs and other aquatic animals in the marsh lands west of London, in order to secure a supply of specimens for his physiological investigations. In these excursions he commonly contracted a cold, and on the last occasion this assumed the form of severe bronchitis, and being followed by fever of a typhoid character, terminated his valuable life on the 7th of April.
Mr. Newport was a member of the Entomological Society nearly from the time of its foundation, and during the sessions of 1844 and 1845 served the office of President. In 1847, he became a Fellow of the Linnean Society: the date of his election into the Royal Society is March 26, 1846, At the time of his death he was a Member of the Council.
The following is a list of Mr. Newport's writings:—
On the Nervous System of the Sphinx Ligustri. Phil. Trans. 1832.
On the Nervous System of the Sphinx (part ii.) during the latter stages of its Pupa and Imago states. Phil. Trans. 1834.
On the Respiration of Insects. Phil. Trans. 1836.
On the Habits of the Wasp. Trans, of Entom. Soc. vol. i.
On the Temperature of Insects. Phil. Trans. 1837.
Observations on the Anatomy, Habits and Economy Athalia centifoliæ. Essay for Saffron Walden Society's Agricultural Prize. 1838.
The article "Insecta" in the Cyclopaedia of Anatomy and Physiology, 1839.2 E 2
