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The Life of Richard Owen, Volume 2 With the Scientific Portions Revised by C. Davies Sherborn and an Essay on Owen's Position in Anatomical Science by the Right Hon. T. H. Huxley, F.R.S.

Biography / Memoir
Series: The Life of Richard Owen Volume: 2
By: Richard S Owen(Author)
393 pages, 13 b/w illustrations
The Life of Richard Owen, Volume 2
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About this book

A reprint of a classical work in the Cambridge Library Collection.

Richard Owen, F.R.S. (1804-92) was a controversial and influential palaeontologist and anatomist. Originally from Lancaster, he studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh and at London's St Bartholomew's Hospital. He grew interested in anatomical research and, after qualifying as a surgeon, became assistant conservator in the museum of the Royal College of Surgeons, and then superintendent of natural history in the British Museum. He became an authority on comparative anatomy and palaeontology, coining the term 'dinosaur' and founding the Natural History Museum. He was also a fierce critic of Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection, and engaged in a long and bitter argument with Thomas Huxley, known as 'Darwin's bulldog' for his belligerent support of the theory. Published in 1894, this two-volume biography draws on Owen's diaries and a wealth of correspondence. Volume 2 includes an essay on Owen's contributions to anatomical science written, surprisingly, by Huxley.

Contents

1. 1855–6. The Phoenix
2. 1856–81. Owen's scheme for a Natural History Museum
3. Lecturer on palaeontology
4. 1860–1. Natural history lectures at Buckingham Palace
5. 1862–4. Jenny Lind
6. 1865–8. Social life
7. 1869–71. First visit to Egypt, 1869
8. 1872–82. Third visit to Egypt, 1873
9. 1883–92. 'Notes on birds in my garden'
Owen's position in the history of anatomical science T. H. Huxley

Bibliography
List of honorary distinctions
Index

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Biography / Memoir
Series: The Life of Richard Owen Volume: 2
By: Richard S Owen(Author)
393 pages, 13 b/w illustrations
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