Guide to the Papers of Sir Richard Owen (as filmed by the AJCP)
M2271-M2288
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Created: 2019
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Series. Correspondence, 1796 - 1889
AB-AYR, 20 January 1841 - 8 October 1888 (File Volume 1)
f.1 J.L. Abel (York) to Owen; Offers British Museum two specimens of Dinornis gigantecus found at Hokitika, sent by A.T. Abel of Ballarat. [01 Dec 1867]...
BAB-BAZ, 5 October 1817 - 13 June 1888 (File Volume 2)
f.214 J. Barlow to Owen; Nephew G. Clerk arrived from N.S.W. with bones for Owen. [n.d.]...
BEA-BEN, 1833 - 1882 (File Volume 3)
ff.20-21 L. Becker (Melbourne) to Owen; Sends box of natural history specimens for Dr Kaup of Darmstadt; plans to search caves in Tasmania; R. Gunn.[30 May 1855]...
BRA-BRO, 26 May 1835 - 2 May 1879 (File Vol.5)
f.21 E. Brayley to Owen; References to articles on Malayan and Borneo orang outang.[26 May 1835]...
BRO-CAT, 23 June 1838 - 15 April 1889 (File Volume 6)
ff.84-85 T. Brown (Manchester) to Owen; Sends cranium of dugong and fossil bones found at Moreton Bay.[19 Aug 1847]...
CAU-CLI, 5 February 1792 - 20 August 1888 (File Volume 7)
ff.56-57 E. Charlesworth to Owen; Seeks support for application for post of museum curator at Melbourne University.[13 Aug 1859]...
CLI-COR, 26 August 1818 - 1877 (File Volume 8)
f.21 W. Clift to G. Cuvier; Account of zoological specimens collected by Sir Stanford Raffles in East Indies. (draft) [c.1820]...
COT-DIA, 27 May 1823 - 5 June 1889 (File Volume 9)
ff.7-10 Rev. W. Cotton (Waimate) to Owen; Moa bones sent by Rev. H. Williams to W. Buckland; believes bird is extant; Bishop G.A. Selwyn; Mrs W. Martin. [11 July 1842]...
DIC-EG, 10 October 1843 - 1889 (File Volume 10)
ff.9-10 E. Diffenbach (Berlin) to Owen; Seeks an appointment; considers employment by New Zealand Company was a failure. [10 Oct 1843]...
EGE-ESP, 26 October 1840 - 31 March 1891 (File Volume 11)
ff.96-97 Sir Philip Egerton to Owen; Returns paper on platypus hoax. [13 Nov 1856]...
ETH-FOW, 7 April 1825 - 2 November 1887 (File Volume 12)
ff.5-6 R. Etheridge (Edinburgh) to Owen; Publication of stratigraphical catalogue of Australian fossils; seeks memoirs by Owen on Australian marsupials. [11 July 1877]...
FOX-GRE, 24 June 1833 - 19 October 1917 (File Volume 13)
ff.143-144 J. Gillies (Edinburgh) to Owen; Departure for Tasmania; seeks instructions about platypus. [20 Sept 1856]...
GRE-HAY, 3 November 1814 - 16 July 1890 (File Volume 14)
ff.3-4 Sir George Grey (Auckland) to Owen; Loss in fire of large collection of fossil bones; acquisition of moa bones. [29 Nov 1849]...
HEB- HYA, 25 June 1814 - 5 November 1889 (File Volume 15)
ff.3-42a J. Hector (Dunedin, Wellington) to Owen; (16 letters) Subjects include moa skeleton found by miners; geological sequence in New Zealand; skeletons of Notornis; J. von Haast; tracings of Waipara fossils; antiquity of moa; Sir Walter Buller; despatch of specimens; treatment of New Zealand specimens in British Museum; G. Bennett; moa feathers in Otago Museum. [1859-1880]...
IBB-KRA, 21 October 1824 - 8 July 1887 (File Volume 16)
ff.26-27 F.N. Isaac. An account of some fossil bones found in Darling Downs (copy); [05 July 1845]...
KRE-LLO, 16 April 1817 - 21 June 1889 (File Volume 17)
ff.1-68 J.L.G. Krefft (Sydney) to Owen; (20 letters) Subjects include receipt of books and skeletons for Australian Museum; fossils collected at Wellington Caves; G. Bennett; Rev. W.B. Clarke; proposed book Fossil mammals of Australia; dispute about moa bones from Australia; characteristics of Tasmanian wolf; fossils sent to British Museum; difficulties with Board of Australian Museum. [1862]...
LOB-MAN, 16 May 1823 - 1900 (File Volume 18)
f.5 J. Locke (Dublin) to Owen; Relics of seven species of moa sent to Dunedin Exhibition; cutting on son T. Locke, Canterbury Provincial Meteorologist. [8 March]...
MAR-MUN, 7 April 1833 - 2 April 1892 (File Volume 19)
ff.24-25 J. Martin (Champion Bay, W.A.) to Owen; Richness of area in fossils; offers to send collection. [01 June 1863]...
MUR-OUD, 13 April 1805 - 1 December 1887 (File Volume 20)
ff.111-112 J. Murie to Owen; Thanks for paper on Echidna hystrix; generation of monotremes; F. von Mueller. [14 Feb 1866]...
OWE-PRI, 10 May 1833 - 29 October 1886 (File Volume 21)
f.26a Owen to Count Paul Strzelecki; Claims of Strzelecki to be first scientific discoverer of gold in Australia. (photocopy) [19 May 1856]...
PRI-RUT, 21 July 1821 - 1889 (File Volume 22)
ff.44-45 T.S. Ralph (Wellington) to Owen; Election of Owen as member of New Zealand Society. [05 April 1852]...
SAB-SHO, 17 April 1811 - 17 April 1888 (File Volume 23)
f.24 Sir Edward Sabine to Owen; Paper by Owen for Royal Society on Australian fossils. [04 Nov 1870]...
SHR – STO, May 1829 - 18 March 1889 (File Volume 24)
ff.22-23 E. Sidney (Sudbury) to Owen; Arrangement for moa bones to be sent to Owen; weapons found with bones. [08 Nov 1858]...
STR-VRO, 6 September 1828 - 25 May 1892 (File Volume 25)
ff.20-21 C. Sturt to Secretary, Royal College of Surgeons; Seeks naturalist for Northern Australian Exploring Expedition; salary; departure of scientists. [Feb 14]...
WAG-WIL, 23 July 1828 - 17 September 1889 (File Volume 26)
ff.19-20 R. Waitt (Casterton, N.Z.) to Owen; Discovery by McAlpine of recent footprints of large bird; offers to send gizzard stones of moa. [02 July 1860]...
WIL-ZUC, 12 March 1817 - 17 September 1889 (File Volume 27)
ff.1-12 C.S. Wilkinson (Sydney) to Owen; Identification of fossil sent by Rev. W.B. Clarke; discovery of incisors of Diprotodon; fossils from Lord Howe Island; loss of fossils in Garden Palace fire; fossil fishes sent to A.S. Woodward. (6 letters) [1879-1889]...
Series. Manuscripts, 1804 - 1885
Subseries 25. Notebooks of R. Owen, 27 October 1830 - 14 January 1839
Volume 1, 23 May 1797 - 26 December 1831 (File)
ff.7-55 Dissection of an orang otang at Zoological Society; [27 Nov 1830]...
Volume 4, November 1831 - January 1832 (File)
Items of interest include: f.38 Notes on living kangaroo [03 Sept (1831)]
Volume 7, January 1832 - May 1832 (File)
ff.68-69 Notes on echidna hystrix
Items of interest include:
Volume 12, 20 February 1836 - 9 December 1837 (File)
ff.20-23 List of specimens received from G. Bennett, Sydney [04 April 1836]...
Subseries 33. Pearly Nautilus (2 vols.) (196ff.), 1832
Volume 2, 1832 (File)
R. Owen. Memoir of the Pearly Nautilus (Nautilus Pompilius, Linn.) with illustrations of its external form and internal structure (London, Royal College of Surgeons, 1832) (Item)
The printed text is interleaved with manuscripts and watercolour and pencil drawings. There are letters of A. Valenciennes (Paris) and R. Hinds concerning specimens of Nautilus acquired by Capt. E. Belcher and Capt. Dumont d'Urville at Amboyna, 1840-1842...
Subseries 59. Manuscripts (2 vols.), 1839
1; Notes on Argonauta rufa; Found in stomach of dolphin in Pacific by Capt. P.P. King. (6ff.) [n.d.]...
Subseries 61. Memoirs on the extinct wingless birds of New Zealand, 1838 - 1879
R. Owen. Memoirs on the extinct wingless birds of New Zealand. (London, Van Voorst, 1879). 2 vols...
Subseries 63. Manuscripts of Sir Everard Home, 27 March 1794 - 19 May 1832
68, Some account of the koala, (2pp.) [18 April 1804]...
Subseries 63a. Lectures of Sir Everard Home on comparative anatomy, 1810 - 1813
ff.77-86 Lecture on digestive organs of cassowary [1813]...