Strand and was buried in the Bethahaim Velho, 243 Mile End Road, London. Da Costa was also a fellow of the Antiquarian Society of London from 1752; a member of the Botanic Society in Florence (Società botanica fiorentina), the Aurelian Society, and the Gentleman's Society at Spalding. He was married twice, first to Leah who died in 1763 without issue. His second wife Elizabeth Skillman outlived him and they had a daughter. Works His publications included: A Natural History of Fossils, 1757 Elements of Conchology, or An Introduction to the Knowledge of Shells, 1776 (illustrated by Peter Brown); British Conchology, 1778 several papers in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society Notes References Bibliography Jewish Encyclopedia </ref> James Grout: Da Costa and the Venus dione: The Obscenity of Shell Description, part of the Encyclopædia Romana Wikisource DNB entry External links Emanual Mendes da Costa: the First Jewish Clerk of the Royal Society at Google Arts and Culture Image held at London Metropolitan Archives: https://cityoflondon.gov.uk/lma 1717 births 1791 deaths 18th-century British botanists Conchologists English philosophers Curiel family Fellows of the Royal Society English Sephardi Jews Jewish British scientists People imprisoned for debt English librarians English people of Portuguese-Jewish descent People convicted of embezzlement