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A catalogue of British fossil vertebrata

London: Dulau & co., 1890.

A history of British fossil mammals and birds

London :John Van Voorst,1846. | Cambridge University Library

A history of British fossil mammals and birds. : [Supplementary material in Charles Darwin's copy]

Cambridge University Library

A history of British fossil mammals, and birds

London,J. Van Voorst,1846. | Smithsonian Libraries

A history of British fossil reptiles

London :Cassell & company limited,1849-1884. | Multiple institutions

A journey to Ashango-Land : and further penetration into equatorial Africa

New York, D. Appleton and Co., 1867.

A journey to Ashango-Land : and further penetration into equatorial Africa

London: J. Murray, 1867.

A journey to Ashango-Land, and further penetration into equatorial Africa

New York,Harper & brothers,1874. | Library of Congress

A journey to Ashango-Land: and further penetration into equatorial Africa

New York,D. Appleton and company,1867. | Library of Congress

A manual of scientific enquiry : prepared for the use of Her Majesty's Navy and adapted for travellers in general

London :John Murray,1849. | Natural History M

A monograph of the fossil Reptilia of the Liassic formations

London, Printed for the Palæontographical society, 1861-81.

A monograph on the British fossil reptilia of the Mesozoic formations

London: Printed for the Palaeontographical Society, 1874-1889.

A monograph on the fossil Reptilia of the Cretaceous formations

London,Printed for the Palæontographical society,1851-64. | Smithsonian Libraries

Abstract of a Lecture on the Classification and Geographical Distribution of the Mammalia

Additional evidence on the affinities of the extinct marsupial quadruped Thylacoleo carnifex (Owen)

London, 1888.

Alleged evidence of the moa from feathered ornaments of maori weapons

article

An Account of the Dissection of the Parts Concerned in the Aneurism for the Cure of Which Dr. Stevens Tied the Internal Iliac Artery, at Santa Cruz, in the Year 1812

scientific article published on October 5, 2010

An Address Delivered at the Distribution of Prizes at St. Mary's Hospital Medical School

scientific article (publication date: 10 June 1865)

An Address on Unveiling the Statue of Harvey, and its Presentation to the Town of Folkestone

scientific article published in the British Medical Journal

An Address on the Scientific Status of Medicine

scientific article (publication date: 13 August 1881)

Anatomy of the King Crab, Limulus Polyphemus, Latr

London: Taylor & Francis, 1873.

Anatomy of the king crab (Limulus polyphemus, Latr.) / by Richard Owen

London: Printed by Taylor and Francis, 1873.

April 9, 1850

article published in 1850

Bibliographical notice

Confirmation of complete colonoscopy without intubation of the ileum

scientific article published on 01 September 1999

December 10, 1850

scientific article published in January 1850

Description of Fossil Remains of Two Species of a Megalanian Genus (Meiolania) from "Lord Howe's Island"

scientific article (publication date: 1886)

Description of Fossil Remains of Two Species of a Megalanian Genus (Meiolania, Ow.), from Lord Howe's Island

article by Richard Owen published 1 January 1886 in Proceedings of the Royal Society of London

Description of a Microscophc Entozoon infesting the Muscles of the Human Body

article published December 1835 in Transactions of the Zoological Society of London

Description of a newly-excluded young of the Ornithorhynchus paradoxus

Description of fragmentary Indications of a huge kind of Theriodont Reptile (Titanosuchus ferox, Ow.) from Beaufort West, Gough Tract, Cape of Good Hope

article by Richard Owen published 1 February 1879 in Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London

Description of the Cranium of a Labyrinthodont Reptile, Brachyops laticeps, from Mangali, Central India

scientific article

Description of the Impressions and Foot-prints of the Protichnites from the Potsdam Sandstone of Canada

article

Description of the Skull of a Dentigerous Bird (Odontopteryx toliapicus, Ow.) from the London Clay of Sheppey

scientific article published in November 1873

Descriptions of some new and rare Cephalopoda

London: Zoological Society?, 1842

Descriptions of some new and rare Cephalopoda. (Part II.)

Descriptions of some new and rare Cephalopoda. Part II

London: Zoological Society?, 1881

Descriptive catalogue of the osteological series contained in the museum

London, Taylor and Francis, 1853.

Essays and observations on natural history, anatomy, physiology, psychology, and geology

London, J. Van Voorst, 1861.

Essays on the conario-hypophysial tract and on the aspects of the body in vertebrate and invertebrate animals

London, 1883.

Evidence of a Species, perhaps extinct, of large Parrot (Psittacus mauritianus, Owen), contemporary with the Dodo, in the Island of Mauritius

article

February 27, 1844

scientific article published in January 1844

General outline of the organization of the animal kingdom and manual of comparative anatomy

London: John van Voorst, M.DCCC.LV [1855]

I.—Description of some Molar Teeth from the Eocene Sand at Kyson in Suffolk, indicative of a new Species of Hyracotherium (Hyr. Cuniculus)

I.—Notice of some Saurian Fossils discovered by J. H. Hood, Esq., at Waipara, Middle Island, New Zealand

article

I.—Supplementary observations on the anatomy of Spirula australis, Lamarck

II. On the Aye-aye (Chiromys, Cuvier; Chiromys madagascariensis, Desm.; Sciurus madagascariensis, Gmel., Sonnerat; Lemur psilodactylus, Schreber, Shaw)

article published in 2010

III.—On the Discovery of the Remains of a Mastodontoid Pachyderm in Australia

scientific article published in January 1843

IV.—Notice of an Ichthyolite from Sheppey, in the collection of Mr. Tennant, F.G.S.

J. Gould's Monography of the Ramphastidae, or family of toucans

German translation of the J. Gould's Toucans monography

July 28, 1840

scientific article (publication date: 1840)

June 14, 1842

scientific article published in January 1842

June 25, 1833.

scientific article published in January 1833

LXI.—On an upper incisor of Nototherium Mitchellii

scientific article published in 1866

Lecture on Two newly-discovered Animals, the Mylodon and the Glyptodon: Delivered at the Royal College of Surgeons

scientific article (publication date: 7 May 1842)

Lectures on the comparative anatomy and physiology of the invertebrate animals : delivered at the Royal College of Surgeons

London: Longman, Brown, Green & Longmans, 1855.

Lectures on the comparative anatomy and physiology of the invertebrate animals, delivered at the Royal college of surgeons

LondonLongman, Grown, Green, and Longmans1855

March 10, 1840

scientific article published in January 1840

Memoir of the dodo (didus ineptus, Linn.)

London, Taylor ad Francis, 1866.

Memoir on the Pearly Nautilus

work by Owen

Memoir on the gorilla (Troglodytes Gorilla, savage)

London: Printed by Taylor and Francis, 1865.

Memoir on the megatherium, or giant ground-sloth of America

LondonWilliams and Norgate1861 | University of Toronto - Gerstein Science Information Centre

Memoir on the pearly nautilus (Nautilus pompilius, Linn). With illustrations of its external form and internal structure

London, Printed by R. Taylor, 1832.

Memoirs on the extinct wingless birds of New Zealand

1879 book by Richard Owen

Monograph of the fossil Mammalia of the Mesozoic formations

London, Printed for the Palæontographical society, 1871.

Monograph of the fossil Reptilia of the London clay, and of the Bracklesham and other Tertiary beds

London :Printed for the Palaeontographical society,1849-80. | Smithsonian Libraries

Monograph on the fossil Reptilia of the Wealden and Purbeck formations : supplement

London: printed for the Palaeontographical society.

Monograph on the fossil reptilia of the London clay

London: Palaeontographical Society, 1849.

Mr. Cuming's collection of shells

Note on the affinities of Rhynchosaurus

scientific article published in 1859

Notes on the birth of the Giraffe at the Zoological Society's Menagerie

scientific article published in February 1840

Observations on certain fossil bones from the collection of the Academy of Sciences of Philadelphia

Philadelphia,1847 | Smithsonian Libraries

Observations on certain parts of the animal economy : inclusive of several papers from the Philosophical transactions, etc

Philadelphia: Haswell, Barrington, and Haswell ;1840.

On a new Orang (Simia Morio)

scholarly article ("1836" [1837])

On a new marsupial from Australia

On fossil evidences of a sirenian mammal (Eotherium ægyptiacum, Ow.) from the Nummulitic eocene of the Mokattam Cliffs, near Cairo

scientific article published in 1874

On parthenogenesis

London :John Van Voorst,1849. | Cambridge University Library

On parthenogenesis. : [Supplementary material in Charles Darwin's copy]

Cambridge University Library

On the Association of Dwarf Crocodiles (Nannosuchus and Theriosuchus pusillus, e.g.) with the Diminutive Mammals of the Purbeck Shales

On the Structure of the Heart in Ornithorhynchus and Apteryx.

On the anatomy of the Great Anteater (Myrmecophaga Jubata)

On the anatomy of vertebrates

LondonLongmans, Green1866-68

On the anatomy of vertebrates

London, Longmans, Green, 1866-68.

On the anatomy of vertebrates ..

London, Longmans, Green and Co., 1866-68.

On the archetype and homologies of the vertebrate skeleton

London: John Van Voorst, 1848.

On the extinct mammals of Australia, with additional observations on the genus Dinornis of New Zealand

article

On the fossil mammals of Australia. parts 1-3, 6, 7

Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library

On the marsupial pouches, mammary glands and mammary foetus of the Echidna hystrix

London :Royal Society of London,1865. | Museums Victoria

On the nature of limbs

London :John Van Voorst,1849. | Cambridge University Library

On the nature of limbs. : [Supplementary material in Charles Darwin's copy]

Cambridge University Library

On the osteology of the dodo (Didus ineptus Linń.)

On the parturition of the Marsupials

Palaeontology or A systematic summary of extinct animals and their geological relations

Edinburgh: A. and C. Black, 1861.

Palaeontology, or, A systematic summary of extinct animals and their geological relations

Edinburgh :A. and C. Black,1860. | Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library

Report on the British Fossil Mammalia

scholarly article (1843)

Report to the County of Lanark

Teeth-Comparative Anatomy

scientific article published on 01 July 1852

The cyclopaedia of anatomy and physiology

By: Bell, Thomas, - Bowman, William, Sir, - Grainger, R. D. (Richard Dugard), - Hall, Marshall, - Jones, Thomas Rymer, - Owen, Richard, - Paget, James, Sir, - Quain, Richard, Sir, - Simon, John, Sir, - Todd, Robert Bentley, - Wheatstone, Charles

The life of Richard Owen

London: Murray, 1894.

The principal forms of the skeleton and teeth

Philadelphia, Blanchard and Lea, 1854.

The zoology of the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle ... during the years 1832-1836

first edition of the book published in parts between 1838 and 1843

V.—On the occurrence in North America of rare extinct vertebrates found fragmentarily in England.—No. 2

article

VII.—Characters of a new species of Axolotl

VII.—On the structure of the teeth of some fossil fish of the carboniferous period

X.—Reply to some observations of Prof. Wagner on the genus Mylodon

XII.—On the Solitaire (Didus solitarius, Gm.; Pezophaps solitaria, Strkl.)

XLI.—Notice of a new species of Seal (Stenorhynchus serridens)

scholarly article (1843)

XLII.—Note on the transverse processes of the two-toothed dolphin (Hyperoodon bidens)

scientific article published in 1853

XLV.—Description of an impregnated uterus and of the uterine ova of Echidna hystrix

XLVI.—Additional Evidence proving the Australian Pachyderm described in a former Number of the ‘Annals’ to be a Dinotherium, with remarks on the Nature and Affinities of that genus

article by Richard Owen published 1 May 1843 in Annals and Magazine of Natural History

XV.—On the occurrence in North America of rare extinct vertebrates found fragmentarily in England.—No. 3

article

XVIII.—On the bone of an unknown struthious bird of large size from New Zealand

article

XX.—Description of the atlas, axis, and subvertebral wedge bones in the Plesiosaurus, with remarks on the homologies of those bones

XXI.—Description of the mammalian remains found at Kyson in Suffolk, mentioned in the preceding notice

article by Richard Owen published November 1839 in Annals and Magazine of Natural History

XXIII.—On the natural term of life and of its chief periods in the Hippopotamus (Hippopotamus amphibius, Linn.)

XXIV.—On the occurrence in North America of rare extinct vertebrates found fragmentarily in England

article

XXV.—A Cuvierian Principle in Palæontology, tested by evidences of an extinct leonine marsupial (Thylacoleo carnifex), by Professor Owen, F.R.S., D.C.L., Foreign Associate of the Institute of France

article

XXX.—Note on Dr. Meigs's Memoir on the reproduction of the opossum

XXXIV.—Description of a fossil molar tooth of a Mastodon discovered by Count Strzlecki in Australia

article

XXXIV.—Remarks on the ‘Observations sur l'ornithorhynque’ par M. Jules Verraux

scientific article published in 1848

XXXVII.—On the Structure and Homology of the Cephalic Tentacles in the Pearly Nautilus

article published in 1843

Zoology of the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle

literary work first published in parts between 1838 and 1843