Quote of the day
There are no countries in the world less known by the British than these selfsame British Islands, or where more strange things are every day occurring.
Richard Owen
Born: July 20, 1804
Died: December 18, 1892 (aged 88)
Bio: Sir Richard Owen was an English biologist, comparative anatomist and paleontologist. Despite being a controversial figure, Owen is generally considered to have been an outstanding naturalist with a remarkable gift for interpreting fossils.
Known for:
- On the Nature of Limbs (1849)
- On the anatomy of vertebrates .. (1863)