Richard Owen (1804-1892) But can the various structures which Comparative Anatomy now unfolds, be referred to one, or do they manifest different types This is a question which is now in progress of Solution. . . . -- Richard Owen, Hunterian Lectures for 1837 Biographical Data Richard Owen was born in Lancaster, England, on July 20, 1804. His family traced its ancestry back to both Lancashire ...

Sir Richard Owen (1804-1892) was a pioneering British comparative anatomist who coined the term dinosauria (from the Greek 'deinos' meaning 'fearfully great', and 'sauros' meaning 'lizard').

Owen's Position in the History of Anatomical Science Rev. Richard Owen, The Life of Richard Owen (1894) Scientific Memoirs IV THE attempt to form a just conception of the value of work done in any department of human knowledge, and of its significance as an indication of the intellectual and moral qualities of which it was the product, is an undertaking which must always be beset with ...