If you buy something using links in our stories, we may earn a commission. Learn more. There was perhaps no Victorian naturalist so well-known and so misunderstood as Richard Owen. He could be warm to ...

THE life of this well-known and eminent anatomist, written by his grandson, the Rev. Richard Owen, has been based on such a large amount of material that “the writer's chief difficulty has been to ...

Within the pantheon of Victorian-era naturalists, there was no villain more sinister than Richard Owen. That’s what I had always been taught, anyway. Though undeniably brilliant, teachers and ...

There was perhaps no Victorian naturalist so well-known and so misunderstood as Richard Owen. He could be warm to friends, but to his scientific peers he was an obstinate autocrat. He was among the ...