MR. Clench

[Chris J. Durden]

Harry Clench was a full blown publishing lepidopterist and co-founder of 
the Lepidopterists' Society (with Charles Remington) at Harvard when I was 
just learning how to swing a net and pinch. He was able to study types at 
the BM(NH) with travel paid by the US Army, before he was at Harvard. Harry 
always seemed much younger than he was. I remember one visit he made to my 
home in Austin that was 19 hours, continuous, of field and lab seminar, 
conducted in a cloud of smoke. Harry was observant of details, receptive to 
new ideas, of which he had a lot himself, and generous to a fault. He 
certainly had a good time at lepidoptery and was delighted with butterflies 
and limacodid moths.
...............Chris Durden

At 11:56 AM 10/22/2001 -0800, you wrote:

> > In age, Harry was younger then Ken and Chris and older than I
>
>         The internet propagates misinformation at the speed of light. I
>have no idea how old Chris Durden is--but Harry Clench was about 5 years
>older than I was at the time he died.
>
>         I am reminded of a remark attributed to Arni Magnusson (1663-1730)
>that I came across many years ago:
>
>         "It is the way of the world that some people put errors into
>circulation while others try then to eradicate these same errors. This
>keeps everyone busy..."
>
>         And we're still keeping busy.
>
>                                                         Ken Philip
>fnkwp at uaf.edu



 
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