Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Richard Owen
Standard Name: Owen, Richard
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1831: The Philpot sisters—Mary, Margaret and Elizabeth...
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1831
The Philpot sisters—Mary
, Margaret
and Elizabeth
—of Lyme Regis established a fossil museum which became famous; they supplied material to such geologists as William Buckland
, Richard Owen
, and Henry de la Beche
.
Alic, Margaret. Hypatia’s Heritage: A History of Women in Science. Women’s Press, 1985.
115
1841: Richard Owen coined the term dinosaur....
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1841
Richard Owen
coined the term dinosaur.
Dean, Dennis R. “Through Science to Despair: Geology and the Victorians”. Victorian Science and Victorian Values: Literary Perspectives, edited by James Paradis and Thomas Postlewait, New York Academy of Sciences, 1981, pp. 111-36.
119
1856: Richard Owen, a rival of Darwin and Huxley,...
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1856
Richard Owen
, a rival of Darwin
and Huxley
, was appointed superintendent of the natural history departments of the British Museum
.
Gascoigne, Robert Mortimer. A Chronology of the History of Science, 1450-1900. Garland, 1987.
410
Knight, David. The Age of Science: The Scientific World-View in the Nineteenth Century. Basil Blackwell, 1986.
100
29 December 1856: The custom of enclosing piano legs in fabric...
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29 December 1856
The custom of enclosing piano legs in fabric because of their indelicacy (often attributed to the Victorians) was observed by Richard Owen
as a habit of Yankees, unfamiliar to an Englishman.
Ashton, Rosemary. George Eliot: A Life. Hamish Hamilton, 1996.
303 and n30
Texts
Owen, Richard. “Forget 1492. Columbus sailed to America 7 years earlier”. Edmonton Journal, p. A1.