Richard Owen Collection

Raphus cucullatus, dodo
Plate 1 from Memoirs on the Dodo by Sir Richard Owen, 1866

Pen and ink sketch by B. Waterhouse Hawkins
Sketch on the reverse of a letter dated 24 October 1855, written to Professor Richard Owen from Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins Date: 1855

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 macrocephalus
Plate 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

Fake rodent skeleton
Sent 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

Drawing of the wing of a bat from Owens book On the Nature
From Richard Owens book On the Nature of Limbs (1849)

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

Sir Richard Owen, The Natural History Museum, London
Side 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

Sculpture of Richard Owen, which is situated at the back of the Central Hall in the Natural History Museum, London

Toxodon platensis
Pleistocene specimen collected by Charles Darwin near Montevideo, Uraguay during the Voyage of the Beagle 1832-1836. Skull length is 66 cms

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