Henry Lee

Career

Born in 1826 or 1827, he succeeded John Keast Lord as naturalist of the Brighton Aquarium in 1872, and was for a time a director At the aquarium he instituted experiments on the migration of smelts, the habits of the herring, whitebait, crayfish, and other topics. Lee was himself an amateur collector of natural history specimens and microscopist.

He was a Fellow of the Linnean Society, Geological Society, and Zoological Society, in London.

He was President of the Quekett Microscopical Club from 1875 to 1877. He died, after some years of ill-health, at Renton House, Brixton, on 31 October 1888.

Works

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  • The Vegetable Lamb of Tartary: A Curious Fable of the Cotton Plant, to Which Is Added a Sketch of the History of Cotton Trade (Classic Reprint)

    (Excerpt from The Vegetable Lamb of Tartary: A Curious Fab...)

  • The Vegetable Lamb of Tartary: A Curious Fable of the Cotton Plant

    (This collection of literature attempts to compile many of...)

  • The vegetable lamb of Tartary; a curious fable of the cotton plant. To which is added a sketch of the history of cotton and the cotton trade

    (This book was originally published prior to 1923, and rep...)

  • The Vegetable Lamb of Tartary: A Curious Fable of the Cotton Plant. To Which Is Added a Sketch of the History of Cotton and the Cotton Trade

    (Leopold is delighted to publish this classic book as part...)

  • The Vegetable Lamb of Tartary

    (The Vegetable Lamb of Tartary By Henry Lee)

  • The Vegetable Lamb of Tartary: A Curious Fable of the Cotton Plant, to Which (Classic Reprint)

    (The Barometz, or Tartarian Lamb. Joannes Zahn ......... F...)

  • The Vegetable Lamb of Tartary: A Curious Fable of the Cotton Plant. To Which is Added a Sketch of the History of Cotton and the Cotton Trade 1887

    (Originally published in 1887. This volume from the Cornel...)

  • The Vegetable Lamb of Tartary: A Curious Fable of the Cotton Plant. To which ... 1887 Hardcover

    (Lang:- English, Pages 133. Reprinted in 2015 with the hel...)

  • The Vegetable Lamb of Tartary; A Curious Fable of the Cotton Plant: To Which Is Added a Sketch of the History of Cotton and the Cotton Trade (Classic Reprint)

    (After Joannes Zahn ......... Frontispiece I. THE VEGETABL...)