James De Carle Sowerby
James De Carle Sowerby | |
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| File:J. de C. Sowerby.jpg James De Carle Sowerby | |
| Born | June 5, 1787 London |
| Died | August 26, 1871 (aged 84) |
| Children | 2 |
| Father | James Sowerby |
| Relatives | George Brettingham Sowerby I |
James De Carle Sowerby (5 June 1787 – 26 August 1871) was a British mineralogist, botanist, and illustrator. He received an education in chemistry.[1]
Sowerby was born in London, the son of botanical artist James Sowerby, and his wife, Anne de Carle. He continued his father's work and published, together with his brother George Brettingham Sowerby I, the latter volumes of the Mineral Conchology of Great Britain, begun by their father.[1]
Together with a cousin, he founded the Royal Botanic Society and Gardens, and was its secretary for 30 years.
His son William Sowerby was also a botanist and illustrator, and succeeded him as Secretary of the Royal Botanic Society in 1869.[2]
In 1846, John William Salter (English naturalist, geologist, palaeontologist, and leading authority on trilobites) married Sally, daughter of Sowerby, and eventually fathered seven children with her.
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Terrapene clausa from Monograph of the Testudinata (lithograph by Edward Lear)
Sowerby died in Kilburn, London in 1871.[1]
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- Rare Book Room Archived 26 January 2021 at the Wayback Machine Scan of Monograph of the Testudinata (and Tortoises, terrapins, and turtles drawn from life) with illustrations by Sowerby
- Chronophobia Scans of selected plates from The Zoological Journal, illustrated by Sowerby
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