Sherman Foote Denton (September 24, 1856 – June 24, 1937) was an American naturalist, illustrator, specimen collector, inventor, writer, and entrepreneur.

Sherman participated in experiments by his father who claimed that rocks and other inanimate objects held a photographic record that sensitive people could see.

[2] Sherman wrote a book based on his life experiences - Incidents of a collector's rambles in Australia, New Zealand, and New Guinea.

[6] The two volume book As Nature Shows Them (1900) produced in a limited 500 copies made use of actual butterfly and moth wing transfers for the colored plates, with the body and legs hand-painted.

Vladimir Nabokov wrote about his own interest in butterflies and noted that his aunts would gift him "ridiculous presents such as Denton mounts of resplendent but really quite ordinary insects."

In 1941, Nabokov made a visit to the collections held at 11 Denton Road and commented that they were "marvellous specimens, but with ... catastrophic labels and without localities.