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George Brettingham Sowerby II (1812 – 26 July 1884) was a British 
He died on 26 July 1884 and is buried on the west side of
naturalist
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, illustrator
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, and conchologist
Conchology, from Ancient Greek κόγχος (''kónkhos''), meaning "cockle (bivalve), cockle", and -logy from λόγος (''lógos''), meaning "study", is the study of mollusc shells. Conchology is one aspect of malacology, the study of mollus ...
. Together with his father, George Brettingham Sowerby I
George Brettingham Sowerby I (12 August 1788 – 26 July 1854) was a British natural history, naturalist, illustrator and Conchology, conchologist.
Life
He was the second son of James Sowerby. George was educated at home under private tutors, ...
, he published the ''Thesaurus Conchyliorum'' and other illustrated works on mollusc
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s. He was an elected a Fellow of the Linnean Society
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on 7 May 1844. He was the father of George Brettingham Sowerby III
George Brettingham Sowerby III (London, 16 September 1843 – 31 January 1921) was a British conchologist, publisher, and illustrator.
He was the eldest son of G. B. Sowerby II. At the age of seventeen or eighteen, he began his career as a conc ...
, also a malacologist
Malacology, from Ancient Greek μαλακός (''malakós''), meaning "soft", and λόγος (''lógos''), meaning "study", is the branch of invertebrate zoology that deals with the study of the Mollusca (molluscs or mollusks), the second-largest ...
.
He died on 26 July 1884 and is buried on the west side of Highgate Cemetery
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with his father George Brettingham Sowerby I
George Brettingham Sowerby I (12 August 1788 – 26 July 1854) was a British natural history, naturalist, illustrator and Conchology, conchologist.
Life
He was the second son of James Sowerby. George was educated at home under private tutors, ...
and sister Charlotte Caroline Sowerby.
See also
*Sowerby family
The Sowerby family () was a British family of several generations of naturalists, illustrators, botanists, and zoologists active from the late 18th century to the mid twentieth century.
*James Sowerby (1757–1822)
** James De Carle Sowerby (17 ...
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.External links
* 1812 births 1884 deaths British conchologists Burials at Highgate Cemetery {{UK-artist-stub