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Owen, Sir Richard, (1804-1892), Knight, comparative anatomist and palaeontologist

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Surname: Owen
Pretitle: Sir
Forenames: Richard
Gender: Male
Date: 1804-1892
Title: Knight
Biography: ODNB link for Owen, Sir Richard (1804-1892), Knight, comparative anatomist and palaeontologist
Name authority reference: GB/NNAF/P138156 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/P21880 )
Online related resources Bibliography of British and Irish History link for Sir Richard Owen
Collections
Number Description Held by Reference Further information
1
corresp and papers
Natural History Museum Library and Archives
L OC
See Catalogue of MSS...Natural History Museum (1995)
2
1828-89: corresp and papers
British Library, Manuscript Collections
Add MSS 33348, 34406-07, 39954-55, 42579-82, 49978
3
1831-73: corresp and papers
Royal College of Surgeons of England
Owen Papers
NRA 9521 RCS scientific

See Bridson, Natural history MS resources 1980
4
family corresp
Royal College of Surgeons of England
Add MSS 579
See Annual Return 2000
5
1826-89: corresp and papers (c400 items)
Temple University Libraries
See NUC MS 69-1845
6
1838-89: corresp
Cambridge University Library: Department of Manuscripts and University Archives
Add 5354
7
1834-55: corresp (11 items)
St Andrews University Library
See HMC MS papers of British scientists 1600-1940, 1982
8
1835-89: corresp and papers
American Philosophical Society Library
NRA 9728 American Philosophic

See HMC MS papers of British scientists 1600-1940, 1982
9
1841-1884: misc corresp
National Library of Scotland, Manuscript Collections
MSS 9715, 10290, 10522, 10777-10780 Passim
10
corresp and papers
Geological Society of London
See HMC MS papers of British scientists 1600-1940, 1982
11
corresp and papers
Linnean Society of London
See HMC MS papers of British scientists 1600-1940, 1982
12
annotated copy of Origin of the species
Shrewsbury School Library
See HMC MS papers of British scientists 1600-1940, 1982
13
1844-90: corresp with Sir Henry Acland
Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections
MSS Acland
NRA 22893
14
1851-87: corresp with Blackwoods
National Library of Scotland, Manuscript Collections
MSS 4095-4507 passim
15
1824-49: letters (18) to Henri Ducrotay De Blainville
Maison D'Auguste Comte
NRA 35879 De Blainville
16
1834-49: letters (20) to William Buckland
Royal Society
MS/251
See HMC MS papers of British scientists 1600-1940, 1982
17
1842-89: corresp with Sir Edwin Chadwick
London University: University College London (UCL) Special Collections
CHADWICK
NRA 21653 Chadwick
18
letters (18) to Sir Henry De la Beche
National Museum of Wales
See HMC MS papers of British scientists 1600-1940, 1982
19
1845-60: corresp with Benjamin Dockray
British Library, Manuscript Collections
Add MS 33348
20
1861-87: corresp with WE Gladstone
British Library, Manuscript Collections
Add MSS 44397-501 passim
21
1844-62: corresp with Sir John Herschel (11 items)
Royal Society
HS
NRA 8803
22
1839-63: letters (18) to Sir William Hooker
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Library and Archives
See HMC MS papers of British scientists 1600-1940, 1982
23
1868-87: letters (26) to Henry Lee
Wellcome Collection
MSS.5389/1-24, 5392/23-24
NRA 39405
24
1849-60: letters to Sir George Cornewall Lewis
National Library of Wales: Department of Collection Services
Harpton Court
NRA 22798 Duff Gordon
25
1835-48: letters (25) to Gideon Algernon Mantell
National Library of New Zealand: Alexander Turnbull Library
MS-Group-0305
NRA 40579

See Microfilm copies (ref.XA 64) at East Sussex R.O.
26
1876-1890: letters to Sir Norman Moore
Collection held privately: enquiries to The National Archives, Archives Sector Development
NRA 29440

See HMC corresp file - Moore, Dr Norman
27
1837-68: letters (34) to Roderick Murchison
Geological Society of London
M/O 7
NRA 28354 Geological Soc

See HMC MS papers of British scientists 1600-1940, 1982
28
corresp with Sir Charles Murray
National Records of Scotland (formerly National Archives of Scotland)
GD261
NRA 14153

See NRAS 0485
29
1842-48: corresp with Sir Robert Peel
British Library, Manuscript Collections
Add MS 40518-600 passim
30
letters (copies) to John Phillips
Oxford University: Museum of Natural History
John Phillips Archive/Folder 8
NRA 42482
31
1853-89: letters to Sir George Stokes
Cambridge University Library: Department of Manuscripts and University Archives
Add 7342, 7656
NRA 20700 Stokes
32
1837-60: letters (45) to William Whewell
Cambridge University: Trinity College Library
WHEWELL
NRA 8804
33
letters (1 vol)
Wellcome Library
NRA 25910
34
1861-1880: letters (31) to Albert and R.W.T. Gunther
Natural History Museum Library and Archives
L MSS GUNTHER COLL (16)
See Catalogue of MSS...Natural History Museum (1995)
35
1824-1866: literary ms, corresp
Princeton University Library
C1152