Obituary — James de Carle Sowerhy. 479 



tance. James de Carle Sowerby, in conjunction with Ws brother 

 George B. Sowerby and other naturalists, conducted the '•' Zoological 

 Journal," from 1825 to 1835, In 1840, the Council of the Geological 

 Society awarded him the " Wollaston Fund," in order to facilitate the 

 continuation of his researches in Mineral Conchology. 



Dr. Buckland, at that time President, spoke in the highest terms 

 of the great services rendered to geological science by Mr. James 

 de Carle Sowerby, especially in illustrating so many works with 

 drawings and engravings of fossil shells and plants, " expressing 

 their characters with a degree of accuracy and truth, which no pencil 

 or burin but those of a scientific artist could possibly accomplish." 



In 1846 he was appointed Curator of the Geological Society's 

 Museum — a post which his engagements with the Eoyal Botanic 

 Society did not permit him to retain for any great length of time. 



In 1838 he joined his cousin, Mr. Philip Barnes, F.L.S., (the 

 original proposer of the project) in founding the Eoyal Botanic 

 Society, and his name appears, together with Mr. Barnes and others, 

 in the Eoyal Charter of Incorporation granted in 1839. 



Mr. James de Carle Sowerby was appointed Secretary to the 

 Society from its commencement, and resided for thirty years at the 

 Eoyal Botanic Gardens, Eegent's Park. He is succeeded in his 

 post of Secretary by his son Mr. William Sowerby. 



No doubt the most valuable assistance given by Mr. Sowerby to 

 the naturalist has been by means of the vast number of portraits of 

 plants, animals, minerals, fossils, etc., most of which he engraved 

 from the specimens themselves. Scientific names, descriptions, and 

 systems of arrangement vary with the progress of the science which 

 gave them birth, and are often superseded and rendered valueless ; 

 but such vivid portraits of natural objects as those so ably delineated 

 by Mr. James de Carle Sowerby will always remain lasting memo- 

 rials of his scientific accuracy and fidelity. He died August 26th, 

 1871, in his 85th year. 



Geological and other Papers, by James de Carle Sowerby. 



" Mineral Conchology," continued from plate 393, in vol. iy., to the end. 

 1824. Jffe/^■.^* wie>«or«/w' (carnivorous ?) ; and Description of a remarkable fossil found 



in Coal shale (spine of Gyr acanthus). Zoological Journal. 

 1827. Descriptive Notes on Fossil Shells found in the Strata below the Chalk 



(Dr. Fitton's paper in Geological Trans.). 

 1829. List, etc., of Fossil Shells (Sedgwick and Murchison's paper on the Structure of 



the Eastern Alps, etc.). Geol. Trans. 

 1835. Fossil Shells (Dr. Buckland, " Bridgewater Treatise"). 

 1837. On the genus Crioceratites and on Bcax>liites gigas. Geol. Trans. 



„ Descriptions, etc., of Fossil Shells (Sedgwick and Murchison's paper on the 



Physical Structure of Devonshire). Geol. Trans. 

 „ Ditto (Captain Grant's paper on Geology of Cutch, India). Geol. Trans. 

 „ Ditto (Colonel Sykes' paper on Geology of Cutch). Geol. Trans. 

 „ Ditto (Mr. Prestwich, Colebrookdale). Geol. Trans. 

 „ Ditto (Mr. "Wetherell, Hampstead). Geol. Trans. 

 „ Ditto (Mr. Malcolmson (Geology of Parts of India). Geol. Trans. 

 „ On a New Genus of Fossil Shells {Tropceum). Geological Proceedings. 

 1839. Descriptions, etc., of Fossil Shells in Murchison's " SilurianSystem." 

 1842. List of Silurian Fossils from Rhenish Provinces. Geol. Trans. 

 1850, Description of Mollusca in Dixon's Geology of Sussex. 



