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JAMES SCOTT BOWERBANK (1797-1877)

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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 343 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JAMES SCOTT BOWERBANK (1797-1877)  ,
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English naturalist and palaeontologist, was born in Bishopsgate,
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London, on the 14th of
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July 1797, and succeeded in conjunction with his
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brother to his
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father's distillery, in which he was actively engaged until 1847 . In early years astronomy and natural
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history, especially botany, engaged much of his attention; he became an enthusiastic worker at the microscope, studying the structure of shells, corals,
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moss-agates, flints, &c., and he also formed an extensive collection of fossils . The organic remains of the London Clay attracted particular attention, and about the
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year 1836 he and six other workers founded " The London Clay Club "—the members comprising Dr Bowerbank, Frederick E . Edwards (x799-1875), author of The Eocene
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Mollusca (Palaeontograph .
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Soc.), Searles V . Wood, John Morris,
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Alfred White (zoologist), N . T . Wetherell, surgeon of
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Highgate (1800-1875), and James de Carle Sowerby . In 184o Bowerbank published A History of the Fossil Fruits and Seeds of the London Clay, and two years later he was elected F.R.S . In 1847 he suggested the establishment of a society for the publication of undescribed
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British Fossils, and thus originated the Palaeontographical Society . From 1844 until 1864 he did much to encourage a love of natural science by being " at home " every Monday evening at his residence in Park Street, Islington, and afterwards in Highbury Grove, where the treasures of his museum, his4microscopes, and his
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personal assistance were at the service of every earnest student . In the study of
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sponges he became specially interested, and he was author of A Monographof the British Spongiadae in 4 vols., published by the Ray Society, 1864-1882 .

He retired in 1864 to St Leonards, where he died on the 8th of

March 1877 .

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