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{{Infobox rai-fellow
| first_name = Richard
| name = Owen
| honorific_prefix = Prof.
| honorific_suffix = DCL, LL.D, FRCSE, FRS, FGS, FLS, Hon. MRS Ed., Hon. FRCS Ireland
| image = File:Owen,_Richard.jpg
| birth_date = 1804
| death_date = 1892
| address = British Museum; and Sheen Lodge, Richmond Park, SW
| occupation = academic<br />medical<br />museum work
| elected_ESL = -
| elected_ASL = 1863.02.18
| elected_AI =
| elected_APS =
| elected_LAS =
| membership = ESL paper only<br />ASL, AI Hon. Fellow
| left =
| clubs = Athenaeum Club
| societies = Royal College of Surgeons<br />Royal Society <br />Geological Society<br />British Museum<br />Linnean Society of London<br />Somersetshire Archaeological and Natural History Society<br />Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce
}}
== Notes ==
=== Office Notes ===
=== 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.
=== 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
== Publications ==
=== External Publications ===
Memoir on the Pearly Nautilus (1832)<br />Odontography (1840–1845)<br />On the Archetype and Homologies of the Vertebrate Skeleton (1848)<br />History of British Fossil Reptiles (4 vols., 1849–1884)<br />On the Nature of Limbs (1849)<br />Palæontology or a Systematic Summary of Extinct Animals and Their Geological Relations (1860)<br />Archaeopteryx (1863)<br />Anatomy of Vertebrates (1866) Image from<br />(Available at Google Books:<br />Volume I, Fishes and Reptiles<br />Volume II, Birds and Mammals<br />Volume III, Mammals<br />Monograph of the Fossil Mammalia of the Mesozoic Formations (1871)<br />Catalogue of the Fossil Reptilia of South Africa (1876)<br />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<br />A physical description of the so called Aztec children Read 6 jul 1853<br />on the influences of training and educating on the children of the natives of some of the South Sea islands. Communicated 24 may 1860<br />On the osteology and dentition of the Andaman Islanders
== Related Material Details ==
=== RAI Material ===
=== Other Material ===
| first_name = Richard
| name = Owen
| honorific_prefix = Prof.
| honorific_suffix = DCL, LL.D, FRCSE, FRS, FGS, FLS, Hon. MRS Ed., Hon. FRCS Ireland
| image = File:Owen,_Richard.jpg
| birth_date = 1804
| death_date = 1892
| address = British Museum; and Sheen Lodge, Richmond Park, SW
| occupation = academic<br />medical<br />museum work
| elected_ESL = -
| elected_ASL = 1863.02.18
| elected_AI =
| elected_APS =
| elected_LAS =
| membership = ESL paper only<br />ASL, AI Hon. Fellow
| left =
| clubs = Athenaeum Club
| societies = Royal College of Surgeons<br />Royal Society <br />Geological Society<br />British Museum<br />Linnean Society of London<br />Somersetshire Archaeological and Natural History Society<br />Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce
}}
== Notes ==
=== Office Notes ===
=== 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.
=== 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
== Publications ==
=== External Publications ===
Memoir on the Pearly Nautilus (1832)<br />Odontography (1840–1845)<br />On the Archetype and Homologies of the Vertebrate Skeleton (1848)<br />History of British Fossil Reptiles (4 vols., 1849–1884)<br />On the Nature of Limbs (1849)<br />Palæontology or a Systematic Summary of Extinct Animals and Their Geological Relations (1860)<br />Archaeopteryx (1863)<br />Anatomy of Vertebrates (1866) Image from<br />(Available at Google Books:<br />Volume I, Fishes and Reptiles<br />Volume II, Birds and Mammals<br />Volume III, Mammals<br />Monograph of the Fossil Mammalia of the Mesozoic Formations (1871)<br />Catalogue of the Fossil Reptilia of South Africa (1876)<br />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<br />A physical description of the so called Aztec children Read 6 jul 1853<br />on the influences of training and educating on the children of the natives of some of the South Sea islands. Communicated 24 may 1860<br />On the osteology and dentition of the Andaman Islanders
== Related Material Details ==
=== RAI Material ===
=== Other Material ===
