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Lee, Henry
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1826-1888
Histórico
Henry Lee was an English naturalist. 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 an amateur collector of natural history specimens and microscopist. He was a Fellow of the Linnean Society, Geological Society and Zoological Society of London. He was president of the Quekett Microscopical Club from 1875-1877. Lee was sceptical of the claims of cryptozoology and sea serpents. His book Sea Monsters Unmasked (1884) compared sightings of the Kraken to the squid