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JOURNAL OF CONCHOLOGY. 



Vol. i6. SEPTEMBER, 1921. No. 7. 



OBITUARY NOTICE : GEORGE BRETTINGHAM SOWERBY, 



F.L.S. 



By II. C. FULTON. 



(Read before the Society, March 2nd, 1921). 



Thk conchological world has lost one of its distinguished men, and 

 this Society one of its oldest and most esteemed members, by the 

 death on the 31st January, at his residence, at Richmond, Surrey, 

 of the third George Brettingham Sowerby, the author and artist. 



The eldest son of G. B. Sowerby the second, he was born in 

 London on September i8th, 1843. When but seventeen or eighteen 

 years of age he commenced business as a conchologist in his father's 

 house at 45, Great Russell Street, London, W.C. ; the business was 

 continued there until 1887, when it was removed to 121, Fulham 

 Road, S.W., from there to Station Parade, Kew Gardens in 1899, and 

 to River Side, Kew, in 1905. From October, 1897, it was carried 

 on under the title of Sowerby and Fulton, and in January, 191 6, Mr, 

 Sowerby retired. He married Miss Rose Wilkie in June, 1867, and 

 they had one son and two daughters, all of whom are living. 



Many papers were contributed to the proceedings of various 

 societies by our late member, who described, in all, about 720 new 

 species of moUusca ; his first paper appeared in the Proceedings of 

 the Zoological Society of London, in May, 1873, and his last in the 

 Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London, in June, 1921. 

 Perhaps his most important works were : — 

 I. — A new edition of his father's " Illustrated Index of British 



Shells," 1887. 



2. — The completion of the Monograph of Tm-bo in part 43, and 



the whole of part 44, completion of the Monographs of 



Conns 2J\6. Valuta, in vol. v. of the "Thesaurus Conchyliorum." 



3. — "Marine Shells of South Africa," 1892, and an Appendix, 



1897. 

 4. — "A Monograph of Carinaria," Proc. Mai. Soc, London, 1893. 

 5. — "Notes on the AmpuUaridse," Proc. Mai. Soc, London, vol. 

 vlii, p. 305, vol. ix, p. 56, vol. xii, p. 65. 



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