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Henry James Wilson Scherren (10 February 1843 – 25 April 1911), usually known as Henry Scherren or in encyclopaedia articles as H. Sc. was the author of various books on natural history for adults and children, with notable illustrations including some in colour, and a contributor to the Encyclopedia Britannica on natural history topics. He was a fellow of the Zoological Society of London, of which he wrote a magnificent but inaccurate history. ==Life== Scherren's family came from Weymouth in Dorset.〔(Storeys of Old ) Retrieved 17 February 2012〕 The son of a bookseller and printer,〔http://search.ancestry.co.uk/Browse/view.aspx?dbid=8860&path=Dorset.Melcombe+Regis.ALL.3d.17, Melcombe Regis, Dt. 3d>17, Source Citation: Class: HO107; Piece: 1857; Folio: 261; Page: 17; GSU roll: 221004, accessed 17 July 2010〕 he became a compositor and moved to London.〔http://search.ancestry.co.uk/iexec/?htx=view&r=5538&dbid=8767&iid=MDXRG9_162_163-0046&fn=Henry+W&ln=Sherren&st=r&ssrc=&pid=5226226, South Hackney, Dt. 1>46, Source Citation: Class: RG9; Piece: 162; Folio: 23; Page: 46; GSU roll: 542584, accessed 17 July 2010〕 After being educated at the new St. Joseph's Foreign Missionary College started by the Mill Hill Missionaries, he joined the Catholic Carthusian monastic order in France. However, he abandoned the order in his mid-thirties to return to secular life, going on to work on the editorial staff of Messrs. Cassell & Co. in London for two decades. In the mid-1890s he moved, with his wife Anna, into a three-storey terraced house (9, Cavendish Road) in the newly built South Harringay estate in north London, living there for the rest of his life.〔Obituary in ''The Times'', 28 April 1911, p. 11.〕 Scherren assisted Robert Hunter with his 7-volume Encyclopedic dictionary (1879–88). In 1891 he wrote to ''Nature'' about a finding of a rare "hydrozoon", ''Cordylophora lacustris''. He collected insect specimens which he shared with other naturalists. Scherren was a Fellow of the Zoological Society of London. He was Assistant Natural History Editor of ''The Field''. He was the author of several books on natural history for both adults and children, including ''Popular History of Animals for Young People'' and ''Ponds and Rock Pools''. He contributed various articles on hybrid animals including Bears, and wrote energetically about hybrids such as the Pumapard. In 1905, Scherren published his history of the Zoological Society of London. It began:〔Scherren, 1905. page 1〕 Scherren's history of the ZSL was criticised as inaccurate by John Bastin: Scherren contributed to several natural history articles for the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica (where he is recorded by his initials "H. Sc."), including 'Platypus'.〔(The 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica: Platypus )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Henry Scherren」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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