Autograph letter signed (to Thomas Twining), agreeing to his request emphasizing that the demands of "duties in a great metropolitan institution increase year by year", asking after Twining's wife and child, etc.
2 pp. 7 x 4.5 inches in good condition
royal College of Surgeons, 9 February 1855
Sir Richard Owen (1804 - 1892), biologist, comparative anatomist and paleontologist. Owen is probably best remembered today for coining the word Dinosauria and for hi outspoken opposition to Charles Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection. He was the driving force behind the establishment, in 1881, of the British Museum of Natural History in London. In 1841 Owen coined the word 'dinosaur' from the Greek words Deinos (fearfully great) and sauros (lizard).
