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See also:SOWERBY, 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 (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. 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, 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. 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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