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William Charles Harris was one of the first authors of a comprehensive book of fish with high quality color illustrations published in 1898. He was also the author of the American Angler an illustrated magazine. THE FISHES OF NORTH AMERICA - "In his publication, which may be said to be the life-work of Mr. Harris, who has spent many years in its preparation, occupies a field entirely its "own in ichthyic literature. In fact, no previous publication has appeared that attempts to cover so large a field, or present so great a number of portraits of American fishes, eighty or more...

Sherman Foote Denton (24 September 1856 – 24 June 1937) was an American naturalist, illustrator, specimen collector, inventor, writer, and entrepreneur. Sherman Foote Denton was born in the United States in 1856 (d. 1937) and at a young age traveled extensively in the US & abroad with his naturalist father, teaching himself to draw on his travels. It was a Huckleberry Finn type of existence, which gave him the basis to earn a creative living as an adult through his mastery as a naturalist & artist, not to mention collector of precious stones. Between 1895-1907 he created he painted 103 different fish...