[Richard Owen] Professor Owen, F.R.S. &c. &c. The Drawing Room Portrait Gallery of Eminent Personages. Presented with the Illustrated News of the World.
Engraved by D.J. Pound from a photograph by John & Charles Watkins, Parliament St. Steel engraving. Sheet 390 x 205mm (15¼ x 8"). Trimmed inside platemark Sir Richard Owen (1804 -92) KCB, English biologist, comparative anatomist and palaeontologist, famed for coining the word Dinosauria (meaning 'Terrible Reptile') and for his outspoken opposition to Charles Darwin's theory of evolution.
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