James de Carle Sowerby

James de Carle Sowerby (1787–1871), British mineralogist, illustrator and botanist.

• Son of James Sowerby, brother of George Brettingham Sowerby I and Charles Edward Sowerby, father of James Sowerby, great-grandfather of Arthur de Carle Sowerby, uncle of George Brettingham Sowerby II and John Edward Sowerby, greatuncle of George Brettingham Sowerby III.

IPNI standard form: J.C.Sowerby

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

• 3 taxon names authored by James de Carle Sowerby

Publications

1815

• Sowerby J.C., 1815. The Mineral Conchology of Great Britain. Volume 2, pp. 1-251. London.

1829

• Sowerby J.C., 1829. The Mineral Conchology of Great Britain. Volume VI. London.

1836

• Sowerby, J.C. 1836. Descriptive notes respecting the shells figured in Plates XI–XXIII Appendix A: 335–348. In: Fitton, W.H. Observations on some of the strata between the Chalk and the Oxford Oolite in the south-east of England. Transactions of the Geological Society of London ser. 2, 4: 103–389. BHL Reference page.