How to Pronounce George Brettingham Sowerby II
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Mar 25, 1812 Greater London, England, United Kingdom Died on 26 Jul 1884 (aged 72)
British naturalist, illustrator, and conchologist
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About George Brettingham Sowerby Ii
- 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.
- He was the father of George Brettingham Sowerby III, also a malacologist. The shell craze was further hyped with the publication of British Conchology, a five volume set of books written by the lawyer John Gwyn Jeffreys (1809–1885) and which managed to combine scientific exactitude with delicate, informative historical commentary.
- Published between 1862 and 1869, and beautifully illustrated by the conchological artist George Sowerby (1812–1884), British Conchology would not be bettered during the Victorian era and it remains a usable and readable resource to this day.
