George Brettingham Sowerby II explained

George Brettingham Sowerby II (1812  - 26 July 1884) was a British naturalist, illustrator, and conchologist. Together with his father, George Brettingham Sowerby I, he published the Thesaurus Conchyliorum and other illustrated works on molluscs. He was an elected a Fellow of the Linnean Society on 7 May 1844.^[1] He was the father of George Brettingham Sowerby III, also a malacologist.He died on 26 July 1884 and is buried on the west side of Highgate Cemetery with his father George Brettingham Sowerby I and sister Charlotte Caroline Sowerby.^[2]

See also

• Sowerby family

References

• H. Crosse & P. Fischer, 1885. Nécrologie. Journal de Conchyliologie 33(1): 80.
• K. v. W. Palmer, 1965. Who were the Sowerbys? American Malacological Union, Annual Reports for 1964: 5–6.
• J. Collins, 1973. The Sowerby family. J. S. London: Seaton & Co., 22 pp
• Petit R.E. (2009) George Brettingham Sowerby, I, II & III: their conchological publications and molluscan taxa. Zootaxa 2189: 1–218.

Notes and References

1. Woodward, Bernard Barham. Bernard Barham Woodward. Sowerby, George Brettingham. 53. 304–305.
2. Book: Cansick . Frederick Teague . The Monumental Inscriptions of Middlesex Vol 2 . 1872 . J Russell Smith . 168 . 15 October 2021.