478 Obituary — James de Carle Soiverhy. 



TJeber die Bracliiopoden aus dem untern Gault (Aptien) von Ahaus ia Westphalen. 

 Zeitschr. deutsch geol. G. 1866. 



Kiitisclie Studien iiber Kreidebrachiopeden. Cassel, 1866. Pal., Vol. 13. 



Ueber die Bracbiopoden der norddeutscben Cenomanbildimgen. In Benecke's 

 geogr.-palaont. Beitrage Vol. 1. 1867. 



Beitrag zur altersbestimniung des Griinsandea Ton Rotbenfelde unweit Osnabriick. 

 Neues Jabrb. von Leonb. und Geinitz, 1869. 



Ueber die norddeutscben Galeritenscbicbten und ihre Bracbiopodenfauna. Sitz. 

 Ber. k. k. Acad. Wiss. Wien. 1868. 



Publisbed in tbe Jabrbucb of tbe k. k. Geol. Reicbsanstalt in Vienna : — 



Ueber einen Belemniten aus der alpinen Kreide von Griinbacb bei Weiner Neustadt ; 



Aspidocaris liasica, eine neue Crustacean aus dem mittlern Lias; botb in Vol. 17. 



Die Bracbiopoden der bobmiscben Kreide. Vol. 18. 



Ueber Belemnites rugifer, nov. spec, aus dem eocenen Tuff von Ronca. Vol. 18. 



Bemerkungen ueber Sharpe's und Sowerby's Belemnites lanceolatus und ueber 

 Sov^erhy's Belemnites ffrattulatus. Vol. 18. 



Pohjptychodmi, Owen vom Dniesternfer bei Onutb in der Bukowina. Vol. 18. 



Ammonites Aicsteni, Sbarpe von Parnica bei Unter Kubin. Vol. 18. 



Ueber Sepia vindobonensis aus dem neogenen Tegel von Baden bei Wien. Vol. 19. 



Bemerkimgen iiber einige Cepbalopoden der Gosaubildungen. Vol. 19. 



Publisbed in tbe " Verbandlungen " of tbe k. k. geol. R.A. : — 



Ueber die Gliederung der rbatischen Schicbten bei Kossen. 1867. 



Geologiscbe Untersucbungen in den Siidtyroler und Venetianer Alpen. 1867. 



Ueber die Lithoniscbe Fauna in Spanien verglicben mit der Siidtyrols. 1867. 



James de Carle Sowekby, F.L.S., F.Z.S., etc., etc., born June 

 6tli, 1787, eldest son of Mr. James Sowerby, the well-known 

 naturalist and artist, was descended from an old Border family. As 

 a boy he delighted in the pursuit of Natural History, but his special 

 study was experimental and analytical chemistry. He was the 

 friend and companion of Faraday, and with him studied under Sir 

 Humphry Davy, delighting in the honour of assisting the great 

 master in his experiments. His knowledge of Chemistry led him to 

 propose the classification of minerals according to their chemical 

 composition, and for this purpose he analyzed the specimens pub- 

 lished in his father's works entitled, "British Mineralogy," and 

 " Exotic Mineralogy." Before he was twenty years of age he 

 named and arranged the collections of the Marchioness of Bath, Miss 

 Codrington, and other amateurs. Working with his father, James 

 de Carle Sowerby's name does not ajDpear to any of his plates until 

 after his father's death, which occurred in 1822. After that event he 

 continued the celebrated works, "English Botany," and "Mineral 

 Conchology," of both which he published several volumes. It 

 was by Mr. Jas. de Carle Sowerby's wish, that the type-collections 

 illustrating this latter important work, were in 1861, acquired 

 for the British Museum, and are now preserved for reference in 

 the Geological Department of that Institution. From 1823 to about 

 1850, he contributed papers principally relating to Fossil Con- 

 chology to the Philosophical Transactions, and to the Proceed- 

 ings and Transactions of the Geological, Linnsean, and Zoological 

 Societies ; he also described, named, and arranged fossil shells 

 for Dr. Buckland, Prof. Sedgwick, Sir Eoderick Murchison, Dr. 

 Fitton, Mr. Dixon, Colonel Sykes and others, who in their several 

 published works and papers gratefully acknowledged his assis-- 



