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'''Richard Owen'''
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=== House Notes ===
Hunterian Professor in the Royal College of Surgeons; Director of the Natural History Department, British Museum. <br />Eq. Ord. Boruss 'pour le merite'. Chev. Leg. Hon. Institut (Imp. Acad. Sci.) Paris<br /><br />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.<br /><br />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<br /><br />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.<br /><br />Member of the Athenaeum Club from 1840