See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
JAMES See also:SOWERBY (1757–1822)
, See also:English natural-See also:history artist, was See also:born in See also:London on the 21st of See also:March 1757
.
He became a student at the Royal See also:Academy, and subsequently taught See also:drawing, but soon applied his See also:art to the See also:illustration of botanical and conchological See also:works, and became distinguished by the publication of his English See also:Botany (36 vols., 1490-1814), and See also:British See also:Mineralogy (5 vols., 1804–1817)
.
He likewise planned and carried out for a number of years the classic See also:geological See also:work intended to describe and illustrate the British fossils, and en-titled The See also:Mineral Conchology of See also:Great See also:Britain (7 vols., 1812-1846)
.
This was issued in parts, with the assistance first of his See also:elder son, J. de C
.
See also:Sowerby, and, after J
.
Sowerby's See also:death (Oct
.
25, 1822), of his second son, G
.
B
.
Sowerby, both the sons being themselves See also:expert palaeontologists
.
The Sowerby collection, consisting of about 5000 fossils, was See also:purchased by the British Museum in 1860
.
The elder son, See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
JAMES DE CARLE SOWERBY (1787–1871), was in 1838 one of the founders of the Royal Botanic Society, and was its secretary for See also:thirty years
.
He supplied the plates and See also:part of the See also:text to the Supplement to English Botany (4 vols., 1831–1849); but his most important work related to palaeontology, as he identified and in many cases described the invertebrate fossils fqr papers by See also:Buckland, See also:Sedgwick, See also:Fitton, See also:Murchison and others in the Transactions of the Geological Society of London
.
The younger son, See also:GEORGE BRETTINGHAM SOWERBY (1788–1854) was author of The Genera of See also:Recent and Fossil Shells (1820-1825), and one of the editors of the Zoological See also:Journal (1825–1826)
.
His son, G
.
B
.
SOWERBY (1812–1884), author of the Conchological See also:Manual (1839; 4th ed., 1852), and See also:grandson G
.
B
.
SOWERBY (b
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1843), a distinguished student of the See also:Mollusca, inherited the See also:family See also:- TALENT (Lat. talentum, adaptation of Gr. TaXavrov, balance, ! Recollections of a First Visit to the Alps (1841); Vacation Rambles weight, from root raX-, to lift, as in rXi vac, to bear, 1-aXas, and Thoughts, comprising recollections of three Continental
talent for natural history
.
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