Papers, 1826-1889.

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Papers, 1826-1889.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122489961

The bulk of this collection is dominated by the Frances Hirtzel Collection of Owen Correspondence, the correspondence of a prominent nineteenth century British anatomist and zoologist. The correspondence is dominated by communication from Owen to his wife Caroline Amelia Owen, his sisters, Elizabeth and Maria Owen, and his father-in-law, William Clift.

0.8 cubic ft. (4 boxes).

Temple University Libraries, Paley Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 6733166

Temple University Libraries, Paley Library

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Baker, Samuel White, Sir, 1821-1893

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Samuel White Baker was born in London and educated in England and Germany. His father, a merchant with the West India Company, wanted his son to follow in his footsteps, but young Samuel chose instead the life of an adventurer. He founded an immigrant colony in Ceylon, published several books on hunting, supervised the construction of a railway connecting the Danube with the Black Sea, and bought a Hungarian slave girl in Bulgaria (whom he rechristened "Florence" and eventually married). She acc...

Royal college of surgeons of England

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Fox, William, 1812-1893

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Clift, William, 1775-1849

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William Clift, English museum curator, was born in Cornwall on 14 Feb. 1775. He married Caroline Amelia Pope in 1799; their daughter, Caroline Amelia Clift, married Sir Richard Owen in 1835. Clift died in London on 20 June 1849. Clift became an apprentice to physician John Hunter in 1792; after Hunter's death, Clift was retained to care for his extensive collection of pathological specimens. When this collection was acquired by the Royal College of Surgeons of England in...

Owen, Maria L. (Maria Louisa), 1825-1913

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Owen, Elizabeth, 1970-

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Owen, Caroline Amelia, 1801-1873

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Epithet: wife of Sir Richard Owen, KCB British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000566.0x000046 Epithet: née Clift; wife (1835) of Sir R Owen British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000566.0x000045 ...

British Museum. Natural History.

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Hunter, John, 1728-1793

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English physician. From the description of Letter, 1777, Sept. 7 : [London], to Edward Jenner. (Duke University). WorldCat record id: 35113899 John Hunter (1728-1793), surgeon, anatomist, and Fellow of the Royal Society who published several treatises on medical subjects, including one on inflammation and gunshot wounds. His anatomical and natural science collections form the core of the Hunterian Museum in Glasgow. From the description of Note on Edward May's Mo...

Vaux, W.L.

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Fowler, John, Sir, 1817-1898

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Rawsthorne, Margaret.

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Buckland, William, 1784-1856

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William Buckland was an English cleric, geologist, and vertebrate paleontologist. He was the first Reader of Geology, University of Oxford (from 1819). Buckland is most noted as the scientific discoverer of dinosaurs. From the description of Letters, 1817-1848. (American Philosophical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 122689446 English cleric William Buckland worked as a geologist and vertebrate paleontologist. The first Reader of Geology, University of Oxford (from 1819...

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 Léopold 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...