George Brettingham Sowerby III

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George Brettingham Sowerby III (16 September 1843 – 31 January 1921) was a British conchologist, publisher, and illustrator.[1]

He, too, worked (like his father George Brettingham Sowerby II and his grandfather George Brettingham Sowerby I) on the Thesaurus Conchyliorium, a comprehensive, beautifully illustrated work on molluscs. He was colour blind, and thus his daughter did most of the colouring of his engravings.

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  1. ^ Petit, Richard (2009). "George Brettingham Sowerby, I, II & III: their conchological publications and Molluscan taxa". Zootaxa. 2189: 1–218.

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