Great Basin Naturalist
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Abstract
W. W. Newby, professor of biology at the University of Utah from 1927 to 1971, was renowned as a great teacher and a clear and forceful writer and for his meticulous research in invertebrate embryology. Ancillary skills were counseling (especially of premedical students), illustrating, wood crafting, and paper preserving. Some of his writings pertained to the history of research in the biological sciences at the University of Utah. His specialty areas in teaching were embryology and genetics, and he served as chairman of the Department of Genetics and Cytology from the year of its creation in 1948 until 1962. The most outstanding example of his research pertained to the early embryology of the echiuroid worm Urechis caupo.
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Behle, William H.
(1985)
"In memoriam: William Wallace Newby (1902–1977),"
Great Basin Naturalist: Vol. 45:
No.
3, Article 7.
Available at:
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/gbn/vol45/iss3/7