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• Owen, Richard, 1804-1892, contrib.: Essays and Observations on Natural History, Anatomy, Physiology, Psychology, and Geology (2 volumes; London: J. van Voorst, 1861), by John Hunter
  • Volume I: multiple formats at Google
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at Google
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • both volumes: page images at HathiTrust
• Owen, Richard, 1804-1892: The Industrial Colleges: The Nature of the Education to be Given in Them; Their Several Kinds and Courses of Instruction Considered; To Which is Added, A Communication on the General Plan of the College Building, With the Necessary Aids to Instruction in Each Department of Education (1864), also by Lewis Bollman (HTML and page images at Indiana)
• Owen, Richard, 1804-1892: Memoirs on the Extinct Wingless Birds of New Zealand; With an Appendix on Those of England, Australia, Newfoundland, Mauritius, and Rodriguez (2 volumes; London: J. van Voorst, 1879)
  • Volume I (Text): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II (Plates): multiple formats at archive.org
• Owen, Richard, 1804-1892: The Palace and Park, its Natural History and its Portrait Gallery, Together With a Description of the Pompeian Court, in the Undermentioned Guides: 1. Palalace and Park; 2. Portrait Gallery; 3. Ethnology and Natural History; 4. Extinct Animals; 5. Pompeian Court (5 guides in 1 volume; London: Crystal Palace Library, and Bradbury and Evans, 1854), also by Samuel Phillips, R. G. Latham, Edward Forbes, and George Scharf, illust. by Philip H. Delamotte
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Owen, Richard, 1804-1892: The Principal Forms of the Skeleton and of the Teeth (Philadelphia: Blanchard and Lea, 1854)
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• Owen, Richard, 1804-1892: Additional evidence on the affinities of the extinct marsupial quadruped Thylacoleo carnifex (Owen). (London, 1888) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Owen, Richard, 1804-1892: Anatomy of the king crab (Limulus polyphemus, Latr.) (Printed by Taylor and Francis, 1873) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Owen, Richard, 1804-1892: Antiquity of man as deduced from the discovery of a human skeleton during the excavations of the East and West India dock-extensions at Tilbury, north bank of the Thames. (J. Van Voorst, 1884) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Owen, Richard, 1804-1892: Aspects of the body in vertebrates and invertebrates. (London, 1883) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Owen, Richard, 1804-1892: A catalogue of British fossil Vertebrata (Dulau & Co., 1890), also by Arthur Smith Woodward, Louis Agassiz, and Charles Davies Sherborn (page images at HathiTrust)
• Owen, Richard, 1804-1892: Circle of the sciences (Richard Griffin and Co., 1860), also by W. S. Dallas, Edward Smith, R. G. Latham, and William Somerville Orr (page images at HathiTrust)
• Owen, Richard, 1804-1892: Contributions to the history of British fossil mammals. (First series) (Printed by R. and J.E. Taylor, 1848) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Owen, Richard, 1804-1892: Description of a new species of Euplectella (Euplectella cucumer, O) (1857) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Owen, Richard, 1804-1892: Description of some of the soft parts, with the integument, of the hind-fin of the Ichthyosaurus; indicating the shape of the fin when recent. (n.p., 1839) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Owen, Richard, 1804-1892: Description of the skeleton of an extinct gigantic sloth, Mylodon robustus, Owen, with observations on the osteology, natural affinities, and probable habits of the megatherioid quadrupeds in general. (Printed by R. and J. E. Taylor, sold by J. van Voorst, 1842) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Owen, Richard, 1804-1892: Description of the skeleton of the Great Auk, or Garfowl (Alca impennis, L.) ([Zoological Society of London], 1866) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Owen, Richard, 1804-1892: Description of the skull of a large species of Dicynodon (D. tigriceps, Ow.); transmitted from South Africa (n.p., 1855) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Owen, Richard, 1804-1892: Descriptive and illustrated catalogue of the fossil Reptilia of South Africa in the collection of the British museum. (Printed by order of the Trustees, 1876), also by British Museum (Natural History). Department of Geology (page images at HathiTrust)
• Owen, Richard, 1804-1892: Experimental physiology, its benefits to mankind; with an address on unveiling the statue of William Harvey at Folkestone, 6th August 1881. (Longmans, Green, 1882) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Owen, Richard, 1804-1892: Fossil Reptilia (Palaeontographical Society, 1857) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Owen, Richard, 1804-1892: Geology and inhabitants of the ancient world (London : Crystal Palace Library and Bradbury & Evans, 11 Bouverie Street, 1854., 1854) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Owen, Richard, 1804-1892: Geology and Inhabitants of the Ancient World (Gutenberg ebook)
• Owen, Richard, 1804-1892: A history of British fossil mammals, and birds (J. Van Voorst, 1846) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Owen, Richard, 1804-1892: A history of British fossil reptiles. (Cassell & company limited, 1849) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Owen, Richard, 1804-1892: A journey to Ashango-Land : and further penetration into equatorial Africa. (D. Appleton and Company, 1867), also by Paul B. Du Chaillu (page images at HathiTrust)
• Owen, Richard, 1804-1892: A journey to Ashango-Land : and further penetration into equatorial Africa (J. Murray, 1867), also by Paul B. Du Chaillu (page images at HathiTrust)
• Owen, Richard, 1804-1892: A journey to Ashango-Land, and further penetration into equatorial Africa. (Harper & Brothers, 1871), also by Paul B. Du Chaillu (page images at HathiTrust)
• Owen, Richard, 1804-1892: A journey to Ashango-Land, and further penetration into equatorial Africa. (Harper & brothers, 1867), also by Paul B. Du Chaillu (page images at HathiTrust)
• Owen, Richard, 1804-1892: A journey to Ashango-Land : and futher penetration into equatorial Africa (Harper, 1874), also by Paul B. Du Chaillu (page images at HathiTrust)
• Owen, Richard, 1804-1892: Key to the geology of the globe; an essay, designed to show that the present geograpical, hydrographical, and geological structures, observed on the earth's crust, were the result of forces acting according to fixed, demonstrable laws, analogous to those governing the development of organic bodies. (Gould & Lincoln, 1857) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Owen, Richard, 1804-1892: The last of the Arctic voyages; being a narrative of the expedition in H.M.S. Assistance, under the command of Captain Sir Edward Belcher, C.B., in search of Sir John Franklin, during the years 1852-53-54. (L. Reeve, 1855), also by Edward Belcher, Lovell Reeve, John William Salter, Thomas Bell, and John Richardson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Owen, Richard, 1804-1892: Lectures on comparative anatomy and physiology of invertebrate animals. (Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1855) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Owen, Richard, 1804-1892: Lectures on the comparative anatomy and physiology of the invertebrate animals, delivered at the Royal college of surgeons, in 1843. (Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1843), also by William White Cooper (page images at HathiTrust)
• Owen, Richard, 1804-1892: Lectures on the comparative anatomy and physiology of the vertebrate animals, delivered at the Royal college of surgeons of England, in 1844 and 1846. (Printed for Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1846) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Owen, Richard, 1804-1892: Leicester square; its associations and its worthies. (Bickers and son, 1874), also by Tom Taylor (page images at HathiTrust)
• Owen, Richard, 1804-1892: Leicester square; its associations and its worthies. (Bickers and Son, 1874), also by Tom Taylor (page images at HathiTrust)
• Owen, Richard, 1804-1892: Memoir on the Dodo ... (Taylor & Francis, 1866) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Owen, Richard, 1804-1892: Memoir on the gorilla (Troglodytes Gorilla, Savage) (Taylor and Francis, 1865) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Owen, Richard, 1804-1892: Memoirs on the extinct wingless birds of New Zealand : with an appendix on those of England, Australia, Newfoundland, Mauritius, and Rodriguez. (J. Van Voorst, 1879) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Owen, Richard, 1804-1892: A monograph of the British fossil Brachiopoda. (Printed for the Palæontographical society, 1851), also by Thomas Davidson, Roderick Impey Murchison, William Herbert Dalton, and William Benjamin Carpenter (page images at HathiTrust)
• Owen, Richard, 1804-1892: Monograph of the fossil Mammalia of the Mesozoic formations. (Printed for the Palæontographical society, 1871) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Owen, Richard, 1804-1892: A monograph of the fossil Reptilia of the Liassic formations. (Printed for the Palæontographical society, 1861) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Owen, Richard, 1804-1892: Monograph on the aye-aye (Chiromys madagascariensis, Cuvier). (Taylor and Francis, 1863) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Owen, Richard, 1804-1892: Monograph on the British fossil Cetacea from the Red Crag. (Printed for the Palæontographical society, 1870) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Owen, Richard, 1804-1892: A monograph on the fossil Reptila of the Mesozoic formations. By Sir Richard Owen. (Printed for the Palaeontographical society, 1874) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Owen, Richard, 1804-1892: A monograph on the fossil Reptilia of the Cretaceous formations. (Printed for the Palaeontographical Society, 1851) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Owen, Richard, 1804-1892: Monograph on the fossil Reptilia of the London clay, and of the Bracklesham and other Tertiary beds. (Printed for the Palaeontographical Society, 1849), also by Thomas Bell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Owen, Richard, 1804-1892: Monograph on the fossil reptilia of the London clay, and of the Bracklesham and other tertiary beds. (Printed for the Palaeontographical society, 1849), also by Thomas Bell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Owen, Richard, 1804-1892: Monograph on the fossil Reptilia of the Wealden and Purbeck formations (Printed for the Palæontographical society, 1853) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Owen, Richard, 1804-1892: Monograph on the fossil Reptilia of the Wealden and Purbeck formations. (Printed for the Palæontographical society, 1853) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Owen, Richard, 1804-1892: Monograph on the Reptilia of the Kimmeridge clay and Portland stone (Printed for the Palæontographical society, 1861) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Owen, Richard, 1804-1892: Observations on certain parts of the animal economy : inclusive of several papers from the Philosophical transactions, etc. (Haswell, Barrington, and Haswell ;, 1840), also by John Hunter and History of Medicine Collections (Duke University) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Owen, Richard, 1804-1892: Odontography; or, A treatise on the comparative anatomy of the teeth; their physiological relations, mode of development, and microscopic structure, in the vertebrate animals. (H. Baillière, 1840) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Owen, Richard, 1804-1892: On Dinornis, an extinct genus of tridactyle struthious birds. (Zoological Society of London, 1844) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Owen, Richard, 1804-1892: On parthenogenesis, or The successive production of procreating indivduals from a single ovum. A discourse introductory to the Hunterian lectures on generation and development, for the year 1849, delivered at the Royal college of surgeons of England. (J. Van Voorst, 1849) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Owen, Richard, 1804-1892: On parts of the skeleton of Meiolana platyceps (Ow.) (1889) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Owen, Richard, 1804-1892: On the affinities of the stereognathus ooliticus (Charlesworth) : a mammal from the oolitic slate of Stonesfield (s.n., 1857) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Owen, Richard, 1804-1892: On the anatomy of the concave hornbill, Buceros cavatus, Lath. (1835), also by Joseph Wiglesworth, George Scharf, and Charles Joseph Hullmandel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Owen, Richard, 1804-1892: On the anatomy of vertebrates. (AMS Press, 1973) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Owen, Richard, 1804-1892: On the anatomy of vertebrates ... (Longmans, Green and Co., 1866) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Owen, Richard, 1804-1892: On the archeopteryx of von Meyer : with a description of the fossil remains of a long-tailed species, from the lithographic stone of Solenhofen (Taylor and Francis, 1863) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Owen, Richard, 1804-1892: On the archetype and homologies of the vertebrate skeleton (Printed for the author by R. and J. E. Taylor, 1848) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Owen, Richard, 1804-1892: On the classification and geographical distribution of the ̲Ma̲̲m̲ma̲ḻi̲a̲, being a lecture on Sir Robert Reade's foundation, delivered before the University of Cambridge ... May 10, 1859. To which is added an appendix "On the gorilla," and "On the extinction and transmutation of species." (J. W. Parker and son, 1859) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Owen, Richard, 1804-1892: On the communications between the cavity of the tympanum and the palate in the crocodilia gavials, alligators and crocodiles. (1850) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Owen, Richard, 1804-1892: On the dicynodont Reptilia : with a description of some fossil remains brought by H.R.H. Prince Alfred from South Africa, November 1860 (Taylor and Francis, 1862) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Owen, Richard, 1804-1892: On the discovery of the fossil remains of bidental and other reptiles in South Africa. ([London, 1845), also by Andrew Geddes Bain (page images at HathiTrust)
• Owen, Richard, 1804-1892: On the extent and aims of a national museum of natural history : including the substances of a discourse on that subject, delivered at the Royal Institution of Great Britain, on the evening of Friday, April 26, 1861 (Saunders, Otley, 1862) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Owen, Richard, 1804-1892: On the fossil genus Basilosaurus, Harlan, (Zeuglodon, Owen) with a notice of specimens from the Eocene green sand of South Carolina. ([Philadelphia, 1847), also by Robert W. Gibbes and M. Tuomey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Owen, Richard, 1804-1892: On the nature of limbs : a discourse delivered on Friday, February 9, at an evening meeting of the Royal Institution of Great Britain (J. Van Voorst, 1849) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Owen, Richard, 1804-1892: On the order Theriodontia, with a description of a new genus and species (Aelurosaurus felinus, Ow.) (n.p., 1881) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Owen, Richard, 1804-1892: On the sacculated form of stomach as it exists in the genus Semnopithecus. (1833) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Owen, Richard, 1804-1892: On the skull and dentition of a Triassic mammal (Tritylodon longaevus, Owen) from South Africa. (1884) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Owen, Richard, 1804-1892: On the vertebral characters of the order Pterosauria, as exemplified in the genera Pterodactylus (Cuvier) and dimorphodon (Owen). (1859) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Owen, Richard, 1804-1892: Orr's Circle of the sciences. A series of treatises on the principles of science, with their application to practical pursuits. Organic nature ... (W. S. Orr and co., 1854), also by William Somerville Orr, W. S. Dallas, Edward Smith, and R. G. Latham (page images at HathiTrust)
• Owen, Richard, 1804-1892: The Palace and Park: Its Natural History, and Its Portrait Gallery, Together with a Description of the Pompeian Court, also by Samuel Phillips, Edward Forbes, R. G. Latham, George Scharf, and F. K. J. Shenton (Gutenberg ebook)
• Owen, Richard, 1804-1892: Palæontology : or A systematic summary of extinct animals and their geological relations (A. and C. Black, 1861) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Owen, Richard, 1804-1892: Pelvic charachters of Thylacoleo carnifex ... (n.p., 1883) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Owen, Richard, 1804-1892: The principal forms of the skeleton and the teeth; as the basis for a system of natural history and comparative anatomy. (C. Griffin, 1854) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Owen, Richard, 1804-1892: The principal forms of the skeleton and the teeth : as the basis for a system of natural history and comparative anatomy (W. Wood, 1800) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Owen, Richard, 1804-1892: The principal forms of the skeleton and the teeth : as the basis for a system of natural history and comparative anatomy (Richard Griffin and Co., 1860) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Owen, Richard, 1804-1892: The principles of physiology (W. S. Orr and co., 1854), also by William Somerville Orr and R. G. Latham (page images at HathiTrust)
• Owen, Richard, 1804-1892: Recherches sur l'archétype et les homologies du squelette vertébré (Baillière, 1855), also by Tuffen West, Moquet, C. Bailly-Baillière, Hippolyte Baillière, J.-B. Baillière, and Day & Son (page images at HathiTrust)
• Owen, Richard, 1804-1892: Report on the reptilian fossils of South Africa; pt. III, On parts of the skeleton of the trunk of the Dicynodon tigriceps ... (n.p., 1855) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Owen, Richard, 1804-1892: Researches on the fossil remains of the extinct mammals of Australia; with a notice of the extinct marsupials of England. (J. Erxleben, 1877) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Owen, Richard, 1804-1892: Researches on the fossil remains of the extinct mammals of Australia; with a notice of the extinct marsupials of England. (J. Erzleben, 1877) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Owen, Richard, 1804-1892: Sur le gorille (Troglodytes gorilla). Sav. (A. Hardel, 1861) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Owen, Richard, 1804-1892: Systematic summary of extinct animals and their geological relations (A. and C. Black, 1860) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Owen, Richard, 1804-1892: The works of John Hunter, F.R.S. with notes. (Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman, 1837), also by John Hunter, James F. Palmer, Everard Home, George Gisborne Babington, Thomas Bell, and Drewry Ottley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Owen, Richard, 1804-1892: The works of John Hunter, F.R.S. with notes. (Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman, 1837), also by John Hunter, Everard Home, George G. Babington, Thomas Bell, James F. Palmer, and Drewry Ottley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Owen, Richard, 1804-1892: The zoology of the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle [vol. 1 of 5] : Fossil mammalia, ed. by Charles Darwin (Gutenberg ebook)
• Owen, Richard, 1804-1892: The Zoology of the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle, under the command of Captain Fitzroy, R.N., during the years 1832 to 1836 : published with the approval of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury (Smith, Elder., 1839), also by Charles Darwin and Leonard Jenyns (page images at HathiTrust)
• Owen, Richard, 1804-1892: The zoology of the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle, under the command of Captain Fitzroy, R.N., during the years 1832 to 1836. Pub. with the approval of the lords commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury. (Smith, Elder and Co., 1839), also by Charles Darwin, Thomas Bell, Leonard Blomefield, T. C. Eyton, John Gould, G. R. Waterhouse, and Great Britain Treasury (page images at HathiTrust)

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