Leonard Jenyns

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Leonard Jenyns , later Leonard Blomefield (born May 25, 1800 in London , † September 1, 1893 in Bath ) was a British clergyman, beetle collector , zoologist and botanist .

Life

Leonard Jenyns was the fourth and youngest son of the clergyman George Leonard Jenyns (1763-1848) and his wife Mary Heberden (1763-1832). He grew up in Bottisham Hall in the County of Cambridgeshire on. Around 1812 he was encouraged by his uncle Leonard Chappelow (1744-1820) to deal with natural history . In 1813 he left Putney school and went to Eaton . In 1818 he moved to St. John's College in Cambridge . There he obtained his bachelor's degree (BA) in 1822 and his master's degree (MA) in 1825 .

On 25 May 1823 he received the ordination to deacon and was for the curacy of Swaffham Bulbeck responsible. A good year later, on June 6, 1824, he was ordained a priest. On December 31, 1827, he finally became vicar .

In 1844 he married Jane Daubeny, who died in 1860. From 1854 to 1860 Jenyns was in charge of the Woolley Curate near Bath . After the death of his wife, he moved to Bath and married his second wife, Sarah Hawthorn, in 1862.

In July 1871, Francis Blomefield, a cousin of Jenyns' father, left him his property on the condition that Jenyns change his name to Blomefield. The name change to Leonard Blomefield took effect on September 27, 1871.

Act

At the end of the 1820s Jenyns was considered the leading collector of beetles in Cambridge, which is where Charles Darwin met him. In 1831 he was offered the opportunity to accompany Robert FitzRoy , captain of the HMS Beagle, on his trip to South America , which he refused due to his pastoral duties.

Jenyns had previously made a reputation as a scientist with contributions to ornithology , bats and the natterjack toad . In 1835 Jenyns published an extensive work on British vertebrates . Darwin asked him around 1837 to edit the volume about the fish planned as part of his zoology of the journey of the HMS Beagle .

On February 18, 1855, Jenyns founded the Bath Natural History and Antiquarian Field Club for whose journal Proceedings of the Bath Natural History Society and Antiquarian Field Club he contributed for over twenty years. In 1869 he donated his 1200 volume library to the Royal Literary and Scientific Institution , his 40 volume Herbarium of British Plants, and 4 volumes of his correspondence.

In 1861 Albert Günther named the genus Jenynsia ( Anablepidae ) in his honor .

Memberships

Leonard Jenyns was a member of numerous scientific societies:

Fonts

Works

  • A Manual of British Vertebrate Animals, Observations in Natural History . Cambridge 1835; on-line
  • Fish. The Zoology of the Voyage of HMS Beagle , under the command of Captain Fitzroy, RN, during the years 1832 to 1836 . Volume 4, Smith, Elder & Co. 1840-1842
  • The natural history of Selborne by the late Rev. Gilbert White, MA A new edition, with notes . London 1843 (as editor)
  • Observations in natural history: with an introduction on habits of observing, asconnected with the study of that science. Also a calendar of periodic phenomena in natural history; with remarks on the importance of such registers . London 1846
  • Van Voorst's naturalists' almanack . London 1847 (as editor)
  • Observations in meteorology . London 1858; on-line
  • Memoir of the Rev. John Stevens Henslow . John Van Voorst 1862 online
  • Reminiscences of William Yarrell . Bath 1885
  • Reminiscences of Prideaux John Selby . Bath 1885
  • Chapters in My Life . 1st edition 1887, 2nd edition 1889 (autobiography)

Journal articles (selection)

  • Observations on the ornithology of Cambridgeshire . In: Transactions of the Cambridge Philosophical Society . Volume 2, 1827, pp. 287-324
  • The distinctive characters of two British species of Plecotus, supposed to have been confounded under the name of Long-eared Bat . In: Transactions of the Linnean Society . Volume 16, pp. 53-66, 1828
  • Some observations on the common bat of Pennant: with an attempt to prove its identity with the Pipistrelle of French authors . In: Transactions of the Linnean Society . Volume 16, p. 159 ff., 1829 (read February 3)
  • Some Observations on the Habits and Character of the Natter-Jack of Pennant, with a List of Reptiles found in Cambridgeshire . In: Transactions of the Cambridge Philosophical Society . Volume 3, 1830, p. 373 ff. Online
  • A Monograph on the British species of Cyclas and Pisidium In: Transactions of the Cambridge Philosophical Society . Volume 4, 1833, p. 289 ff. Online
  • Some remarks on the study of zoology, and on the present state of the science . In: Magazine of Zoology and Botany Volume 1, pp. 1-31, Edinburgh 1837 online
  • Further remarks on the British Shrews, including the distinguishing characters of two species previously confounded . In: Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology, Botany and Geology . Volume 1, pp. 417-427, London 1838 online
  • Notes on some Shrews brought from Germany by W. Ogilby, Esq., Including the description of an apparently New Species . In: Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology, Botany and Geology . Volume 2, pp. 323-328, London 1838-1839 online
  • On a new species of bat found in the county of Durham, and preserved in the museum belonging to the Durham University . In: Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology, Botany and Geology . Volume 3, pp. 73-76, London 1839; on-line
  • Three Undescribed Species of Cimex closely allied to the Common Bed-Bug . In: Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology, Botany and Geology . Volume 3, pp. 241-244, London 1839
  • On the variation of species . In: Report of the 26th meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science held at Cheltenham, Transactions of the sections . Pp. 101-105, 1856

proof

literature

  • Patrick H. Armstrong: The English Parson-naturalist: A Companionship Between Science and Religion . Gracewing Publishing 2000. ISBN 0852445164
  • Frederic Boase: Modern English Biography: Containing Many Thousand Concise Memoirs of Persons who Have Died Since the Year 1850, with an Index of the most Interesting Matter . 6 volumes, Netherton & Worth, Truro 1892–1921
  • Adrian Desmond , James Moore: Darwin . List Verlag, Munich Leipzig 1991. ISBN 3-471-77338-X

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The London Magazine . 1825, p. 616 online
  2. ↑ http://www.theclergydatabase.org.uk/jsp/DisplayOrdination.jsp?CDBOrdRedID=48784
  3. ↑ http://www.theclergydatabase.org.uk/jsp/DisplayOrdination.jsp?CDBOrdRedID=157066
  4. ↑ Desmond / Moore p. 81
  5. ↑ Desmond / Moore p. 123

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personal data
SURNAME Jenyns, Leonard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Blomefield, Leonard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British clergyman, zoologist and botanist
DATE OF BIRTH May 25, 1800
PLACE OF BIRTH London
DATE OF DEATH September 1, 1893
Place of death Bath