George Newport

George Newport FRS (4 February 1803, Canterbury – 7 April 1854, London)[1] was an English entomologist.

He was one of the most skilled anatomists of his time, and his researches on the structure of insects and other arthropods are notable.

His publications include:[3] Newport wrote on the structure, relations, and development of the nervous and circulatory systems, and on the existence of a complete circulation of the blood in vessels, in Myriapoda and macrourous Arachnida in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London First series.

He published researches on the impregnation of the ovum in the Amphibia; and on the early stages of development of the embryo.

And he wrote on the Nervous System of the Sphinx ligustri, Linn., (Part II) During the Latter Stages of its Pupa and its Imago State, and on the Means by Which its Development is Affected Phil.