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Sowerby, James, (1757-1822), naturalist

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Surname: Sowerby
Forenames: James
Gender: Male
Date: 1757-1822
Biography: ODNB link for Sowerby, James (1757-1822), naturalist
Name authority reference: GB/NNAF/P153758 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/P26777 )
Online related resources Bibliography of British and Irish History link for James Sowerby
Collections
Number Description Held by Reference Further information
1
1761-1835: corresp and papers
Natural History Museum Library and Archives
L Sowerby coll
See Catalogue of MSS...Natural History Museum (1995)
2
drawings and papers
Linnean Society of London
See Bridson, Natural history MS resources 1980
3
1808: papers
Geological Society of London
See HMC MS papers of British scientists 1600-1940, 1982
4
sketches
National Museum of Wales
See Bridson, Natural history MS resources 1980
5
corresp
Royal Society
MSS 682, 709
See Bridson, Natural history MS resources 1980
6
corresp
Bristol University Information Services: Special Collections
DM 1186
NRA 31780 Eyles
7
1793-1814: corresp
National Library of Scotland, Manuscript Collections
MS.3925
8
letters (14) to William Cunnington
Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Society
MS 2598/Box 326
NRA 41673 Cunnington

See Bridson, Natural history MS resources 1980
9
letters to James Dalton
Leeds University Library, Special Collections
See Accessions to Repositories 1967
10
letters (26) to Hugh Davies
National Library of Wales: Department of Collection Services
NLW MS 6664C
11
1806-14: letters (12) from Charles Lyell
National Library of Scotland, Manuscript Collections
MS.10789
12
1813-19: letters (25) to Gideon Algernon Mantell
National Library of New Zealand: Alexander Turnbull Library
MS-Group-0305
NRA 40579

See Microfilm copies (ref.XA 64) at East Sussex R.O.
13
letters to Sir James Smith
Oxford University: Sherardian Library of Plant Taxonomy
MSS Sherard
NRA 6305 Sherard
14
1800-22: letters to Sir James Smith
Linnean Society of London
Smith papers
NRA 9516
15
letters from Sir James Smith
Linnean Society of London
See Annual Return 1993
16
letters from John Templeton
Ulster Museum
See Bridson, Natural history MS resources 1980