Henry Denny (entomologist)

Henry Denny (1803–1871) was an English museum curator and entomologist, known as an authority on parasites.

Life

Denny was the first salaried curator of the Leeds Museum, then the museum of the Leeds Literary and Philosophical Society, appointed in 1825. He held that post for 45 years. The British Association for the Advancement of Science in 1842 made a grant to Denny for the study of British Anoplura; William Kirby tried to bring him in as illustrator of his Introduction to Entomology, though without success.^[1][2]

Denny died at Leeds on 7 March 1871, at the age of 68, and a fund was raised by subscription for the benefit of his widow and younger children.^[1]

Works

Ricinus bombycillae, named by Denny (1842), from the genus Amblycera of parasites

Denny's published writings were:^[1]

• Monographia Pselaphorum et Scydmænorum Britanniæ; or an Essay on the British species of the genera Pselaphus of Herbst, and Scydmænus of Latreille, Norwich, 1825.
• Monographia Anoplurorum Britanniæ; or an Essay on the British species of Parasitic Insects belonging to the order Anoplura of Leach, London, 1842.

Notes

1.  Stephen, Leslie, ed. (1888). "Denny, Henry". Dictionary of National Biography. 14. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
2. Nature London: The International Weekly Journal of Science. Nature Publishing Group. 1871. p. 413.

Attribution

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Stephen, Leslie, ed. (1888). "Denny, Henry". Dictionary of National Biography. 14. London: Smith, Elder & Co.