Richard Owen

Prof. Richard Owen DCL, LL.D, FRCSE, FRS, FGS, FLS, Hon. MRS Ed., Hon. FRCS Ireland
Born	1804
Died	1892
Residence	British Museum; and Sheen Lodge, Richmond Park, SW Museum of Natural History, Cromwell Road, SW [1881] Sheen Lodge, Mortlake, Surrey [1885]
Occupation	anatomist biologist museum work palaeontologist
Society Membership membership ESL paper only ASL, AI Hon. Fellow left 1888.06 last listed 1892 deceased elected_ESL - elected_AI 1863 elected_ASL 1863.02.18 clubs Athenaeum Club societies Royal College of Surgeons Royal Society Geological Society British Museum Linnean Society of London Somersetshire Archaeological and Natural History Society Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce

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House Notes

Hunterian Professor in the Royal College of Surgeons; Director of the Natural History Department, British Museum. 
Eq. Ord. Boruss 'pour le merite'. Chev. Leg. Hon. Institut (Imp. Acad. Sci.) Paris

4 aug 1853: An application was made by Mr Morris, the guardian of the so called Aztec children, to have their measurements extracted from Professor Owens’ paper for his own use, to which he said, Mr Owen was willing.

death noted in Report of Council for 1892

Notes From Elsewhere

Hon. M.R.S.Ed., Hon. F.R. College of Surgeons of Ireland, Eq. Ord. Boruss. ‘pour le mérite’, Foreign Associate of the Anthropological Society of Paris, Chev. Leg. Hon. Institut (Imp. Acad. Sci.) Paris

Sir Richard Owen FRS KCB (20 July 1804 – 18 December 1892) was an English biologist, comparative anatomist and paleontologist. Despite being a controversial figure, Owen is generally considered to have been an outstanding naturalist with a remarkable gift for interpreting fossils.

Member of the Athenaeum Club from 1840

Publications

External Publications

Memoir on the Pearly Nautilus (1832)
Odontography (1840–1845)
On the Archetype and Homologies of the Vertebrate Skeleton (1848)
History of British Fossil Reptiles (4 vols., 1849–1884)
On the Nature of Limbs (1849)
Palæontology or a Systematic Summary of Extinct Animals and Their Geological Relations (1860)
Archaeopteryx (1863)
Anatomy of Vertebrates (1866) Image from
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Volume I, Fishes and Reptiles
Volume II, Birds and Mammals
Volume III, Mammals
Monograph of the Fossil Mammalia of the Mesozoic Formations (1871)
Catalogue of the Fossil Reptilia of South Africa (1876)
Antiquity of Man as deduced from the Discovery of a Human Skeleton during Excavations of the Docks at Tilbury (1884)

House Publications

ESL On the three Naloo skulls. Printed May 1849 [see also Cull] - sent to Edinburgh for insertion in Jameson's Journal July 1850
A physical description of the so called Aztec children Read 6 jul 1853
on the influences of training and educating on the children of the natives of some of the South Sea islands. Communicated 24 may 1860
On the osteology and dentition of the Andaman Islanders