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Raphus cucullatus, dodoPlate 1 from Memoirs on the Dodo by Sir Richard Owen, 1866
Crystal Palace Dinosaur ModelsModels sculpted by Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins, working closely with Joseph Paxton and Richard Owen, were installed in the worlds first dinosaur park which opened at Crystal Palace Park in 1854
Sir Richard Owen (1804-1892)Portrait of Sir Richard Owen, an English biologist, comparative anatomist and palaeontologist. Picture shows Owen and the skeleton of Dinornis maximus, c. 1877. From The Life of Owen (1894)
Plesiosaurus macrocephalusPlate 15 from Geology and Inhabitants of the Ancient World, by Sir Richard Owen, (1854). This marine reptile could be found during the Jurassic period between 200 and 145 million years ago. Date: 1854
Ichthyosaurus. Illustration taken from the Richard Owen collIllustration 117a, annotated by William Clift asNo 4. Profile of Mr Johnsons Fossil found at Lyme
Fake rodent skeletonSent to the Museum by amateur palaeontologist Reverend C Green in 1843. The skeleton had not been dug out of the ground whole and bones belonged to different individuals
Victorian invitation and menu for dinner at Crystal Palace (
Drawing of the wing of a bat from Owens book On the NatureFrom Richard Owens book On the Nature of Limbs (1849)
Bothriospondylus madagascariensisA fossil specimen of a femur fragment, or thigh bone that once belonged to the dinosaur, Bothriospondylus madagascariensis. It was discovered in Madagacar and dates back to the Middle Jurassic
Ursus speleaus, great cave bearFig. 28 from A History of British Fossil Mammals and Birds, by Sir Richard Owen (1804-1892), published in 12 parts, 1844-1846
Homo sapiens, human and Gorilla gorilla, western gorillaDrawing of a human skeleton and a gorilla skeleton. Published in Transactions of the Zoological Society of London Vol. 5, Part 1 by Richard Owen, 1866
View of statue of Sir Richard Owen (1804-1892)The Central Hall, the Natural History Museum, London. Superintendent of the Natural History Departments of the British Museum 1856-1883
Daubentonia madagascariensis, aye-ayeWatercolour by Joseph Wolf (1820-1899). Plate 256 b. from the Richard Owen Drawings Collection held at the Natural History Museum
Sir Richard Owen, The Natural History Museum, LondonSide view of the statue of Sir Richard Owen (1804-1892), the founder and first director of the Natural History Museum, London. Photographed by Elad Sherman
Owens plan for the Natural History Museum, London
Sir Richard Owen (1804-1892) painted in 1844Owen holds the leg bone of a moa, and is wearing robes of Professor of Comparative Anatomy at the Royal College of Surgeons. Oil painting by Henry William Pickersgill (1782-1875)
Iguanodon model at Crystal PalaceA concrete model of the Iguanodon, as conceived by Professor Sir Richard Owen. It is located in the grounds of Crystal Palace, London and was worked on by Waterhouse Hawkins and Joseph Paxton in 1854
Sketch for The Natural History Museum, LondonAn rough architectural plan drawn by Richard Owen in 1859 entitled Idea of a Museum of Natural History. The plan was referred to by Alfred Waterhouse in the creation of the Natural History Museum
Iguanodon model 1854A 1/20 life size model of the dinosaur Iguanodon created by Waterhouse Hawkins in 1854 under the the supervision of Professor Sir Richard Owen. The model measures 40cm
Didunculus strigirostris, tooth-billed pigeonPlate 2 from Sir Richard Owens Memoirs on the Dodo, (1866). Held in the Earth Science Library at the Natural History Museum, London
Glyptodon clavipes, giant armadilloExtinct herbivore that died out about 10, 000 years ago on display in the Central Hall at The Natural History Museum, London. The Glyptodon was named by Sir Richard Owen in 1839
Pezophaps solitaria, Rodrigues solitairePlate number 512 c by Richard Owen drawn from a male skeleton specimen at Cambridge university.This giant flightless pigeon was the closest relative of the dodo, it was native to Rodrigues Island
Sculpture of Richard Owen, which is situated at the back of the Central Hall in the Natural History Museum, London
Toxodon platensisPleistocene specimen collected by Charles Darwin near Montevideo, Uraguay during the Voyage of the Beagle 1832-1836. Skull length is 66 cms