Henry Denny
Henry Denny (born 1803 ; died March 7, 1871 in Leeds , West Yorkshire , England ) was a British museum curator and parasitologist . Denny was named the Leeds City Museum's first full-time curator in 1825 and remained so until his death. His area of expertise was lice , and he wrote several monographs and initial descriptions of parasites.
Life
In 1825 Denny published his first monograph, a work on various British short-winged birds . In the same year he was hired by the Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society as the first full-time curator of the Leeds Museum . He carried out this activity until the end of his life. Denny also researched the ectoparasites of humans and animals. His second monograph was published in 1842 and dealt with lice in the British Isles. For the British Museum of Natural History in London he wrote the eleventh volume of the list of British animals in their collections in 1852, also on lice.
The English entomologist William Kirby , to whom Denny had dedicated his first book, wanted him to work as an illustrator for a table for his Introduction to Entomology . The negotiations with the publisher did not come to a conclusion. For his Monographia anoplurorum britanniae he received generous support of 50 guineas from the British Association for the Advancement of Science in 1842 .
Initial descriptions (selection)
- Bryaxis puncticollis ( Denny , 1825)
- Cosmiomma hippopotamensis ( Denny , 1843)
- Dermacentor rhinocerinus ( Denny , 1843)
- Euplectus kirbii Denny , 1825
- Stenichnus bicolor ( Denny , 1825)
Publications (selection)
- Henry Denny: Monographia Pselaphidarum et Scydmaenidarum Britanniae: An essay on the British species of the genera Pselaphus, of Herbst, and Scydmaenus, of Latreille: in which those genera are subdivided, and all the species hitherto discovered in Great Britain . S. Wilkin, Norwich 1825 ( digitized version ).
- Henry Denny: Monographia anoplurorum britanniae; or, An essay on the British species of parasitic insects belonging to the order anoplura of Leach, with the modern divisions of the genera according to the views of Leach, Nitzsch and Burmeister, with highly magnified figures of each species . Henry G. Bohn, London 1842 ( digitized version ).
- Henry Denny: Description of six supposed new species of Parasites . In: Annals and Magazine of Natural History . tape XII , no. LXXVIII , 1843, pp. 312-316, Plate XVII ( digitized ).
- Henry Denny: Anoplura, or parasitic insects (= John Edward Gray [Ed.]: List of the specimens of the British animals in the collection of the British museum . Volume XI ). Taylor & Francis, London 1852 ( digitized version ).
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Robert Harrison: Denny, Henry . In: Leslie Stephen (Ed.): Dictionary of National Biography . tape 14 . Macmillan and Co., New York 1888, p. 374-375 ( digitized version ).
- ↑ a b Notes . In: Nature . March 23, 1871, p. 413-414 ( digitized version ).
- ^ Henry Denny: Monographia Pselaphidarum et Scydmaenidarum Britanniae , p. 26.
- ^ A b Henry Denny: Description of Six supposed new species of Parasites .
- ^ Henry Denny: Monographia Pselaphidarum et Scydmaenidarum Britanniae , p. 14.
- ^ Henry Denny: Monographia Pselaphidarum et Scydmaenidarum Britanniae , p. 68.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Denny, Henry |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British entomologist and parasitologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1803 |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 7, 1871 |
| Place of death | Leeds , West Yorkshire , England |