Leonard Jenyns

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

  • 5.1 Literature
  • 5.2 Notes and references

Life

Leonard Jenyns was the fourth and youngest son of clergyman George Leonard Jenyns (1763-1848) and his wife Mary Heberden ( 1763-1832 ). He grew up in the county of Cambridgeshire in Bottisham Hall. To 1812 he was replaced by his uncle Leonard Chappelow ( 1744-1820 ) encouraged to engage in natural history. In 1813 he left school in Putney and went to Eaton. In 1818 he moved to the St. John's College, Cambridge. There he acquired in 1822 a Bachelor (BA ) and 1825 as the Master ( MA).

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

In 1844 he married Jane Daubeny, but died in 1860. From 1854 to 1860 Jenyns is responsible for the curacy of Woolley at Bath. After the death of his wife he moved to Bath in 1862 and married his second wife, Sarah Hawthorn.

In July 1871 he left his property Francis Blomefield, a cousin of the father of Jenyns, under the condition that Jenyns change its name to Blomefield. The name was changed to Leonard Blomefield came into force on 27 September, 1871.

Work

End of the 1820s was Jenyns as the leading collector of beetles in Cambridge, making him Charles Darwin met. In 1831 he was offered, Robert FitzRoy, captain of HMS Beagle to accompany them on the trip to South America, but he refused due to his pastoral duties.

Jenyns had previously been made ​​with contributions to ornithology, about bats and the natterjack toad a reputation as a scientist. 1835 Jenyns published an extensive work on the British vertebrates. Darwin asked him for the 1837 as part of his Zoology of the Voyage of HMS Edit Beagle planned tape over the fish.

On February 18, 1855 Jenyns founded the Bath Natural History and Antiquarian Field Club for the journal Proceedings of the Bath Natural History Society and Antiquarian Field Club, he wrote long posts over twenty years. In 1869 he gave the Royal Literary and Scientific Institution 's about 1,200 -volume library, its about 40 volumes complete herbarium of British plants, as well as four volumes of his correspondence.

Albert Günther named in 1861 in whose honor the fish genus Jenynsia ( Anablepidae ).

Memberships

Leonard Jenyns was a member of numerous scientific societies:

Writings

Works

  • A Manual of British Vertebrate Animals, Observations in Natural History. Cambridge 1835; online
  • Fish. The Zoology of the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle, under the command of Captain Fitzroy, RN, falling on 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 science did. Also a calendar of periodic phenomena in natural history; with remarks on the, importance of search register. London 1846
  • Van Voorst 's naturalists ' almanack. London 1847 (as Editor)
  • Observations in meteorology. London 1858; online
  • Memoir of the Rev. John Stevens Henslow. John Van Voorst 1862 online
  • Reminiscences of William Yarrell. Bath 1885
  • Prideaux John Selby Reminiscences of. Bath 1885
  • Chapters in My Life. 1st edition 1887, 2nd edition 1889 ( autobiography)

Journal Papers (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 to attempt to prove its identity with the Pipistrelle of French authors. In: Transactions of the Linnean Society. Volume 16, pp. 159 ff, 1829 (3 February read)
  • 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, pp. 373 ff online
  • A Monograph on the British species of Pisidium and Cyclas In: Transactions of the Cambridge Philosophical Society. Volume 4, 1833, pp. 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 character of two species peviously confounded. In: Annals and Magazine of Natural History: including Zoology, Botany and Geology. 1, pp. 417-427, London 1838 online
  • Notes on some Shrews Brought from Germany by W. Ogilby, including the description of Esq., To 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; online
  • 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

Evidence

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