Dru Drury

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Dru Drury.

Dru Drury (born February 4, 1725 in Wood Lane , London , † January 15, 1804 in Turnham Green ) was a British entomologist .

Live and act

Dru Drury's father was a silversmith , from whom Dru took over the business in 1748. In 1789 he stopped working as a silversmith and devoted his life to entomology. Even before that, Drury was interested in entomology and was President of the Society of Entomologists of London between 1780 and 1782 . He died in 1804 at the age of almost 79 years and was in St. Martin-in-the-Fields buried.

Between 1770 and 1787 he published the three-volume work Illustrations of Natural History, wherein are exhibited upwards of 240 figures of Exotic Insects , which was later revised and republished in 1837 under the title Illustrations of Exotic Entomology .

Drury was also an avid collector. Its collection includes over 11,000 species .

In 1770 Drury illustrated the butterfly Battus polydamas antiquus from the island of Antigua, which is now considered extinct.

Publications

  • Illustrations of natural history. White, London 1773.
  • Illustrations and descriptions of exotic insects. Nuremberg 1785.
  • Illustrations of exotic entomology. Bohn, London 1837.

literature

  • P. Gilbert: Butterfly Collectors and Painters. Four centuries of color plates from The Library Collections of The Natural History Museum, London. Beaumont Publishing, Singapore 2000, ISBN 981-04-3040-X , pp. 27-28, Portr, pp. 88-89, 140-141, 148-149: Lep. blackboard
  • FJ Griffin: Proc. R. Ent. Soc. London. (A) 15, 1940, pp. 49-68.
  • AH Haworth: Trans. Ent. Soc. London. 1, 1807, pp. 33-34.
  • JB Heppner: J. Lepidopt. Soc . 36 (2), 1982, pp. 87-111 (Sep. Heppner)
  • W. (B.) Jardine: Nat. Library. 13, 1842, pp. 17-71, Portr.
  • WE Leach: Brewster, Edinburgh Encyclopaedia. 9, 1815, p. 66.
  • B. Noblett: Bull. Amat. Ent. Soc. 44 (349), 1985, pp. 170-178, Portr.
  • H. Osborn: A Brief History of Entomology Including Time of Demosthenes and Aristotle to Modern Times with over Five Hundred Portraits. The Spahr & Glenn Company, Columbus, Ohio 1952, p. 190, year of death 1803
  • MA Salmon: The Aurelian Legacy. British Butterflies and their Collectors. Harley Books, Martins, Great Horkesley 2000, ISBN 0-520-22963-0 .

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personal data
SURNAME Drury, Dru
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British entomologist
DATE OF BIRTH February 4, 1725
PLACE OF BIRTH Wood Lane , London
DATE OF DEATH January 15, 1804
Place of death Turnham Green