Person

Owen, Richard (1804 - 1892)

FRS

Born
20 July 1804
England
Died
18 November 1892
Occupation
Naturalist and Anatomist

Summary

Sir Richard Owen was the first Hunterian Professor of Comparative Anatomy and Physiology, Royal College of Surgeons, London 1836-1856. He did pioneer work on parthenogenesis, Australian marsupials, palaeontology and opposed Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection.

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Archival resources

Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales

  • Richard Owen - Records, 1880 - 1885, ML MSS 1066; Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales. Details

Royal Society of Tasmania

  • Richard Owen - Records, 1857, Ms 104/2; Royal Society of Tasmania. Details

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See also

  • Minard, Pete, 'Making the "marsupial lion": bunyips, networked colonial knowledge production between 1830-59 and the description of Thylacoleo carnifex', Historical Records of Australian Science, 29 (2) (2018), 91-102. https://doi.org/10.1071/HR18003. Details
  • Murphy, Sean, The Cranbourne meteorite (North Melbourne: Australian Scholarly publishing, 2023), 164 pp. Details
  • Newland, Elizabeth, 'Dr George Bennett and Sir Richard Owen: a Case Study of the Colonisation of Early Australian Science' in International Science and National Scientific Identity: Australia between Britain and America, R. W. Home and Sally Gregory Kohlstedt, eds (Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Press, 1991). Details
  • Turnbull, Paul, 'Australian museums, Aboriginal skeletal remains, and the imagining of human evolutionary history', Museum & society, 13 (1) (2015), 72-87. https://doi.org/10.29311/mas.v13i1.318. Pages 75, 81. Details

McCarthy, G.J.

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