The New International Encyclopædia/Newport, George

NEWPORT, George (1803-54). An English naturalist and physician, born at Canterbury, and educated at London University and at the College of Surgeons. He was one of the most skilled anatomists of his time, and his researches on the structure of insects and other arthropods are very important. His publications include: On the Respiration of Insects (1836); article on “Insecta” in Todd's Cyclopedia of Anatomy and Physiology (1839); On the Use of Antennæ of Insects (1840); List of Specimens of Myriopoda in the British Museum (1844); Monograph of the Class Myriopoda, Order Chilopoda (1845); and On the Impregnation of the Ovum in the Amphibia (1851).