About Leslie John William Newman
Lived 1878 – 1938 (aged 59–60). Leslie John William Newman was an Australian entomologist.
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.
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entomologist
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Leslie John William Newman was born in 1878 in Port Melbourne.
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Leslie John William Newman died in 1938.
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Leslie John William Newman was an entomologist.
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Leslie John William Newman was Australian.
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