Richard Owen F.R.S. (1804-92) was a controversial and influential
palaeontologist and anatomist. Owen studied medicine at the
University of Edinburgh and at London's St Bartholomew's Hospital.
He grew interested in anatomical research, and after qualifying he
became assistant conservator in the museum of the Royal College of
Surgeons, and then superintendent of natural history in the British
Museum. He quickly 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 Darwin's 'Bulldog', Thomas Huxley. Published in 1866,
this is the second book in a highly illustrated three-volume set
that comprises a thorough overview of vertebrate anatomy. This
volume focuses on the anatomy of birds, and includes the first part
of the analysis of mammalian anatomy.
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