TENNEY, Sanborn, naturalist, born in Stoddard, New Hampshire, 13 January, 1827; died in Buchanan, Michigan, 9 July, 1877. He was graduated at Amherst in 1853, and then taught natural history in the New England normal institute in Lancaster, Massachusetts, for two years. In 1855 he became lecturer before the Massachusetts state teachers' institute, meanwhile studying natural history under Louis Agassiz, in Cambridge, and delivering courses of lectures in various parts of the country. He was appointed professor of natural history in Vassar college in 1865, and continued there until 1868, when he accepted a similar chair in Williams. In 1873 he delivered a course of lectures on " Physical Structure and Natural Resources of the United States" before the Lowell institute in Boston, and two years later a course on " Geology" before the same institute. At the time of his death, Professor Tenney was on his way west to act as leader of the Williams Rocky mountain expedition. Besides contributions to "The Popular Science Monthly" and other similar periodicals, he published "Geology for Teachers, Classes, and Private Students" (Philadelphia, 1859) ; "A Manual of Zoology" (New York. 1865) ; "Elements of Zoology" (1875) ; and, with Mrs. Tenney, " Natural History of Animals" (1866).-His wife, Abby Amy Gore, was the author of "Pictures and Stories of Animals for the Little Ones at Home" (6 vols., New York, 1868), and a "New Game of Natural History" (Philadelphia, 1870). She also contributed to scientific journals.