Sir Richard Owen: Letters and Papers 1793-1889
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Owen, Richard, 1804-1892
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Richard Owen was a comparative anatomist and palaeontologist. From the description of Letter from Richard Owen to Charles LeĢopold Laurillard to introduce John Gould, 1833 [manuscript]. [1833] (Libraries Australia). WorldCat record id: 277137992 Professor of the Royal College of Surgeons of London; authority on comparative anatomy, vertebrate paleontology and geology. From the description of Osteological contributions to the natural history of the chimpanzees (Tr...
Sir Richard Owen
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Sir Richard Owen (1804-1892) was born on 20 July 1804 at Lancaster, and attended the local grammar school. He became an apprentice to the first of three surgeons in 1820, before matriculating at Edinburgh University in 1824. He left Edinburgh before taking his degree to join St Bartholomew's Hospital, London, where he became prosector to John Abernethy in 1825. He passed the membership examination for the Royal College of Surgeons in 1826, and set up his own private practice. Owen became a lectu...
