Leonard Hugh Newman, (3 February 1909 - 23 January 1993) was a British

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and broadcaster. He wrote many popular books on

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s, especially

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and

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s. With Peter Scott and James Fisher, he was a resident member of the team who presented "

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" on

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radio's

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in the 1950s. He ran a butterfly farm in

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(which he inherited from his father), supplying among others Sir

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, who bought many butterflies for his house at

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. A collection of Newman's entomological photographs is held by the library of the Natural History Museum in

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Bibliography (incomplete)

*''Talking of butterflies, moths and other fascinating insects'' (1946) *''Butterfly haunts'' (1948) *''British moths and their haunts'' (1949) *''Butterflies on the wing'' (1949) *''Moths on the wing'' (1950) *''Stand & stare'' (1950) with W. J. C. Murray *''Transformations of butterflies and moths'' (1952) *''Nature parliament: A book of the broadcasts'' (1952) with James Fisher and Peter Scott *''Linger and look'' (1952) *''Nature's way : questions and answers on animal behaviour'' (1952) with W. J. C. Murray *''How's your pet?'' (1953) *''The observer's book of common British insects and spiders'' (1953) *''Butterfly farmer'' (1953) *''Butterflies of the fields and lanes, hills and heathland'' (1954) *''Garden and woodland butterflies'' (1954) *''Wander and watch'' (1954) with W. J. C. Murray *''Butterflies of day and night : a book of beautiful butterflies and magnificent moths'' (1954) *''Instructions to young naturalists'' (1956) with Maxwell Knight and W. E. Swinton *''Looking at butterflies'' (1959) *''Hawk-moths of Great Britain and Europe'' (1965) *''Man and insects'' (1965) *''Living with butterflies'' (1967) *''Create a butterfly garden'' (1967), with Moira Savonius *''Ants from close up'' (1968), with Stephen Dalton *''The complete British butterflies in colour'' (1968) British entomologists British lepidopterists 1909 births 1993 deaths 20th-century American zoologists {{UK-entomologist-stub