G. B. Sowerby II
George Brettingham Sowerby II (1812 – 26 July 1884) was a British natural history, naturalist, illustrator, and Conchology, 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. He was the father of George Brettingham Sowerby III, also a malacology, 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. 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 conchol ...
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