Leslie John William Newman (1878–1938) was an Australian entomologist born at Sandridge (Port Melbourne), Victoria, on 16 February 1878. He became an horticultural inspector for the government of Western Australia. While employed to assess insects of economic concern to introduced food plants, he encouraged staff to capture other species and assembled these into valuable entomological collections.[1][2]
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- ^ McCarthy, G.J. "Newman, Leslie John William - Biographical entry - Encyclopedia of Australian Science". www.eoas.info. The University of Melbourne eScholarship Research Centre. Retrieved 12 October 2018.
- ^ C. F. H. Jenkins, 'Newman, Leslie John William (1878–1938)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, published first in hardcopy 1988, accessed online 13 October 2018.
- Groll, Eckhard K. (18 January 2016). "Biographies of the Entomologists of the World details". sdei.senckenberg.de. Retrieved 13 October 2018.
Specialisms: angewandte Entomologie; Insecta
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