James Scott Bowerbank is a Naturaliste, Géologue and British Paléontologue known for its studies on the sponges, born on July 14th, 1797 and dead on March 8th, 1877.

Biography

It was born with Bishopsgate with London. He works, with the assistance of his brother, in family distilling until 1847. Very early, it is however impassioned of astronomy and Natural history, more particularly of Botanique (1822-1824) and with human osteology (1831). With a microscope, he studies with enthusiasm the structure of the shells, the corals, the stones like silicates. He also constitutes a vast collection of fossils. The fossil remainders of the organizations contained in the clays of London interest it and with six other naturalists, they found the London Clay Club . Its other members are:

• Frederick E. Edwards (1799-1875), Eocene author of The Mollusca (published by the Palaeontographical Society )
• Searles Valentine Wood (1798-1880)
• John Morris (1810-1886)
• Alfred White, zoologist
• Nathaniel Thomas Wetherell, (1800-1875), surgeon
• James De Carle Sowerby (1787-1871)

In 1840, Bowerbank publishes has History off the Fossil Fruits and Seeds off the London Clay ; two years later, it is allowed with the Royal Society. In 1847, it suggests the creation of an institute for the conservation of the not yet described fossils, which will be made under the name of Palaeontographical Society . He particularly studies sponges and he publishes a monograph in four volumes, the British Spongiadae .

From 1844 to 1864, he works much with the popularization of the natural science in particular by organizing meetings, initially at his place on Parc street with Islington every Monday, then in Highbury Grove. He places at the disposal of the serious students his four microscopes and his assistance.

He withdraws in 1864 with Saint-Leonards-one-Sea where he dies.

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