English biologist and paleontologist (1804–1892)

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Sir Richard Owen. Lithograph by A. Orton after E. C. Rye.

Sir Richard Owen. Photograph by Maull & Polyblank.

Sir Richard Owen. Photogravure after H. J. Thaddeus, 1891.

Sir Richard Owen. Photograph by W. & D. Downey.

Sir Richard Owen. Stipple engraving by C. H. Jeens, 1880.

Owen's ape & Darwin's bulldog : beyond Darwinism and creationism / Christopher E. Cosans.

Sir Richard Owen. Mezzotint by W. Walker, 1852, after H. W. Pickersgill, 1843.

On the archetype and homologies of the vertebrate skeleton / [Richard Owen].

A monograph on the British fossil reptilia of the Mesozoic formations / by Richard Owen.

Memoir on the pearly nautilus : (Nautilus pompilius, Linn.) : with illustrations of its external form and structure / drawn up by Richard Owen.

Observations on certain parts of the animal oeconomy : inclusive of several papers from the Philosophical transactions, etc. / by John Hunter ; with notes by Richard Owen.

Essays and observations on natural history, anatomy, physiology, psychology, and geology / by John Hunter, being his posthumous papers on those subjects, arranged and revised, with notes ; to which are added the introductory lectures on the Hunterian collection of fossil remains delivered in the theatre of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, March 8th, 10th and 12th, 1855 / by Richard Owen.

The principal forms of the skeleton and the teeth : as the basis for a system of natural history and comparative anatomy / by Professor Owen.

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Owen, Richard, 1804-1892

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A monograph on the British fossil reptilia of the Mesozoic formations / by Richard Owen.

Memoir on the pearly nautilus : (Nautilus pompilius, Linn.) : with illustrations of its external form and structure / drawn up by Richard Owen.

Observations on certain parts of the animal oeconomy : inclusive of several papers from the Philosophical transactions, etc. / by John Hunter ; with notes by Richard Owen.

The principal forms of the skeleton and the teeth : as the basis for a system of natural history and comparative anatomy / by Professor Owen.