John Henry Leech

John Henry Leech

John Henry Leech (5 December 1862- 29 December 1900, Salisbury was an English entomologist who specialised in Lepidoptera and Coleoptera.

His collections from China , Japan and Kashmir are in the Natural History Museum , London.These contain alsoinsects from Morocco, the Canary Islands and Madeira. He wrote "British Pyralides" (1886) and "Butterflies from China, Japan and Corea", three volumes (1892-1894).

He was a Fellow of the Linnean Society and of the Entomological Society of London, a Member of the Societe Entomologique de France, and of the Entomological Society of Berlin (Entomologischen Verein zu Berlin).

References

*Anon. 1901 [Leech, J. H.] "Entomologist's Monthly Magazine" (2) 12(37)(2) 49-50.
*Anonym 1901 [Leech, J. H.] "Entomologist" 34 33-38.
*Gilbert, P. 2000 "Butterfly Collectors and Painters. Four centuries of colour plates from The Library Collections of The Natural History Museum, London." Singapore, Beaumont Publishing Pte Ltd.
*Inoue, H. 2005 John Henry Leech (1862-1900) "The pioneers of moth-fauna of Japan" 1 Yugato.
*Verrall, G. H. 1900 "Proc. Ent. Soc. London".

External Links

* [http://www.nhm.ac.uk/research-curation/collections-library/collections-management/collections-navigator/transform.jsp?rec=/ead-recs/nhm/uls-a353758.xml&srch_str=butterflies NHM] Manuscript Collection.
* [http://www.archive.org/details/catalogueofpalae00brituoft Internet Archive] "Catalogue of the collection of palaearctic butterflies formed by the late John Henry Leech, and presented to the trustees of the British Museum by his mother, Mrs. Eliza Leech (1902)" British Museum (Natural History.
* [http://www.archive.org/details/lepidoptera00leecrich Internet Archive] Leech, John Henry "On Lepidoptera Heterocera from China, Japan, and Corea" (1897?] )


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