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Discover how whales were at the heart of Richard Owen's original proposal for a museum of natural history in Britain. The founding of the Natural History Museum in London can be traced back to the ambition of one man: Sir Richard Owen. Born in 1804 in Lancaster, Owen was a divisive figure in Victorian science.
Sir Richard Owen KCB FRMS FRS (20 July 1804 – 18 December 1892) was an English biologist, comparative anatomist and paleontologist. Owen is generally considered to have been an outstanding naturalist with a remarkable gift for interpreting fossils.
Dec 24, 2009 · Book Review: Richard Owen: Biology Without Darwin. By Riley Black. December 24, 2009. • 4 min read. There was perhaps no Victorian naturalist so well-known and so misunderstood as Richard...
