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James Sowerby was born in Lambeth, London, on the 21st of March 1757, his parents were named John and Arabella.
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James Sowerby English Botany; or Coloured Figures of British Plants published in 1800 (Volume XI). Includes 96 plates of British flowers and plants only (no text). This is one of the most famous books on English Botany ever created containing many wonderful botanical prints.
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Mountain Spiderwort, HEXANDRIA Mimogyma. Gek. Char. Cor. of 6fpreading petals, permanent. Filaments tbread-fhaped, Capfule fuperior. Seeds angular. Cal. none. Spec. Char. Leaves femicylindrical; thofe on the fiem dilated at their bafe. Stem moflly finglefiowered. Stn, A nthericimi ferotinum. Urn. Sp. PI. 444. Sm. FL Brit. 367. Hud. 144. With 339. Hull. 73. Bulbofa alpina juncifolia, pericarpio unico ere loin fiimrrio cauliculo dodrantali. Rati Syn. 374. t. 17. iHE Anthericum ferotinum, being found only on the raoft inacceffible alpine rocks of North Wales, has been feen by very few Britifh botanifts. Our fpecimen was communicated in a frefh ftate by J. W. Griffith, Efq. of Gam, a gentleman to whom we are indebted for many valuable particulars concerning the botany of his own fequeftered and romantic country, and who finds this plant in plenty on the rocks above the alpine valley of Cwm I dwel, Carnarvonfhire, flowering in June or early in July, fo that the name ferotinum feems not very happily applied. The root is perennial, confining of a flender oblong curved bulb, with many fibres at its bafe. Stem from 3to oinches high, folitary, ereel, round, fmooth, leafy, generally fimple and jingle-flowered, asL inn feus defines it; but Mr. Griffith has not unfrequently obferved it branched and bearing many flowers. Radical leaves flender, femicylindrical or angular, furmounting the flem; the reft alternate, fhort, dilated at their bafe. Flower terminal, ereel, compared by Dr. Richardfon ,to that,of Wood Sorrel (r. 762), which it at firft fight fomewhat refembles, the petals being white, externally veined witbpurplifh red. Stamina thread-fhaped, fmooth. (Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.) About the Publisher Forgotten Books is a publisher of historical writings, such as: Philosophy, Classics, Science, Religion, History, Folklore and Mythology. F
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illustrator mineralogist naturalist
James Sowerby was born in Lambeth, London, on the 21st of March 1757, his parents were named John and Arabella.
Sowerby studied art at the Royal Academy and took an apprenticeship with Richard Wright.
He became distinguished by the publication of his English Botany (36 vols. , 1790 - 1814), and British Mineralogy (5 vols. , 1804 - 1817). He likewise planned and carried out for a number of years the classic geological work intended to describe and illustrate the British fossils, and entitled The Mineral Conchology of Great Britain (7 vols. , 1812- 1846). This was issued in parts, with the assistance first of his elder son, J. de C. Sowerby, and, after J. Sowerby's death (Oct. 25, 1822), of his second son, G. B. Sowerby, both the sons being themselves expert palaeontologists.
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He married Anne Brettingham De Carle and they were to have three sons: James De Carle Sowerby (1787–1871), George Brettingham Sowerby I (1788–1854) and Charles Edward Sowerby (1795–1842), the Sowerby family of naturalists. His sons and theirs were to contribute and continue the enormous volumes he was to begin and the Sowerby name was to remain associated with illustration of natural history.
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 thirty years. He supplied the plates and part of the 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 for papers by Buckland, Sedgwick, Fitton, Murchison and others in the Transactions of the Geological Society of London. The younger son, George Brettingham Sowerby (1788 - 1854) was author of The Genera of Recent and Fossil Shells (1820 - 1825) and one of the editors of the Zoological Journal (1825 - 1826). His son, G. B. Sowerby (1812 - 1884), author of the Conchological Manual (1839; 4th ed. , 1852), and grandson G. B. Sowerby (b. 1843), a distinguished student of the Mollusca, inherited the family talent for natural history.