George Brettingham Sowerby II
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George Brettingham Sowerby II (25 March 1812 – 26 July 1884)<ref name="ODNB">Template:Cite ODNB</ref> 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.<ref>Template:Cite DNB</ref> He was the father of George Brettingham Sowerby III, also a malacologist.
He died on 26 July 1884 and is buried on the west side of Highgate Cemetery with his father George Brettingham Sowerby I and sister Charlotte Caroline Sowerby.<ref name=FC>Template:Cite book</ref>
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References
- H. Crosse & P. Fischer, 1885. Nécrologie. Journal de Conchyliologie 33(1): 80.
- K. v. W. Palmer, 1965. Who were the Sowerbys? American Malacological Union, Annual Reports for 1964: 5–6.
- J. Collins, 1973. The Sowerby family. J. S. London: Seaton & Co., 22 pp
- Petit R.E. (2009) George Brettingham Sowerby, I, II & III: their conchological publications and molluscan taxa. Zootaxa 2189: 1–218.