Richard Owen
1804 - 1892
- Born
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20 July 1804
A house at the corner of Brock and Thurnham Streets, Lancaster, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom
- Died
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18 December 1892
Richmond Park, Surrey, England, United Kingdom
- Nationality
- British
- Gender
- Male
- Date of election for Royal Society fellowship
- 18/12/1834
- Age at the time of election for Royal Society fellowship
- 30
- Occupation
- Comparative anatomist and palaeontologist
- Relationships
- Parents: Richard Owen (1754–1809), merchant in the West Indies trade, and Catherine Longworth, née Parrin (d. 1838), daughter of Robert Parrin, church organist in Lancaster. Spouse: Caroline Clift, only daughter of William Clift FRS (1823)
- Catalogue
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- Wikipedia
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Author of
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Unpublished paper, 'Description of parts of a human skeleton from Pleistocene (Paleolithic) bed, Tilbury, Essex [England]' by Richard Owen
Creator: Richard Owen Reference number: AP/62/6 -
Paper, 'Notice of portions of the skeleton of the trunk and limbs of the great horned saurian of Australia (Megalania prisca, Ow.)' by Richard Owen
Creator: Richard Owen Reference number: PP/2/27 -
Letter, on demonstrating vascular communication between uterus and placenta from Richd [Richard] Owen to Robert Lee
Creator: Richard Owen Reference number: PT/20/2 -
Fragment of paper, from 'On the mammary glands of the ornithorhynchus paradoxus' by Richard Owen
Creator: Richard Owen Reference number: PT/20/8i -
Paper, 'On the communications between the cavity of the tympanum and the palate in the crocodilia (gavials, alligators and crocodiles)' by Prof [Richard] Owen
Creator: Richard Owen Reference number: PT/38/13
Referee of
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Referee's report by Richard Owen, on a paper 'Researches in embryology - Second series' by Martin Barry
Creator: Richard Owen Reference number: RR/1/9 -
Referee's report by Richard Owen, on two papers 'On the chorda dorsalis' and 'On the blood corpuscules Parts II & III' by Martin Barry
Creator: Richard Owen Reference number: RR/1/13 -
Referee's report by Richard Owen, on a paper 'On fibre' by Martin Barry
Creator: Richard Owen Reference number: RR/1/14 -
Report by Richard Owen, on a paper 'On the structure and use of the malpighian bodies of the kidney, with observations on the circulation through that gland' by William Bowman
Creator: Richard Owen Reference number: RR/1/29 -
Referee's report by Richard Owen, on a paper 'On the organ of hearing in crustacea' by Arthur Farre
Creator: Richard Owen Reference number: RR/1/63 -
Referee's report by Richard Owen, on a paper 'On the structure of chitons' by J E Gray
Creator: Richard Owen Reference number: RR/1/81
Recipient of
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Letter from J F W [John Frederick William] Herschel, Collingwood, to Professor [Richard] Owen
Creator: John Frederick William Herschel Reference number: MC/5/381
Most frequently corresponded with
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John Frederick William Herschel
12 letters