Richard Owen's Request

This is an autographed note signed "Richard Owen' to the Registrar of the Government School of Science, Jermyn Street, requesting him "to admit Mr. Grenfell & friend to my Lecturers (Thursday & Friday, 2 p.m.)"

British Museum, 26 Match 1857

1 page, 7 x 4.5 inches, in good condition. 

Sir Richard Owen (1804-1892) was an English biologist, comparative anatomist and paleontologists. He was widely regarded as one of the most brilliant and influential biologists of his time.

Owen is probably best remembered today for coining the word Dinosauria and for his 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 Green words Deinos (fearfully great) and sauros (lizard).