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 .

1841: Richard Owen coined the term dinosaur....

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1841

Richard Owen coined the term dinosaur.

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 .

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.

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Owen, Richard. “Forget 1492. Columbus sailed to America 7 years earlier”. Edmonton Journal, p. A1.