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Oxford University Museum of Natural History
Corporate body · 1850-

The Oxford University Museum of Natural History is a museum displaying many of the University of Oxford's natural history specimens. The university's Honour School of Natural Science started in 1850, but the facilities for teaching were scattered around the city of Oxford in the various colleges. The university's collection of anatomical and natural history specimens were similarly spread around the city. Regius Professor of Medicine, Sir Henry Acland, initiated the construction of the museum between 1855 and 1860, to bring together all the aspects of science around a central display area
Owen, Richard, Sir
Owen, Richard, Sir
Person · 1804-1892

Sir Richard Owen was an English biologist, comparative anatomist and palaeontologist. Owen produced a vast array of scientific work, but is probably best remembered for coining the word Dinosauria, meaning terrible reptile or fearfully great reptile. An outspoken critic of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection, Owen agreed with Darwin that evolution occurred, but thought it was more complex than outlined in Darwin's On the Origin of the Species. Owen was the first President of the Microscopical Society of London in 1839 and edited many issues of its journal, The Microscopic Journal. Owen also campaigned for the natural specimens in the British Museum to be given a new home. This resulted in the establishment, in 1881, of the Natural History Museum in South Kensington.
Owen, Francis Philip Cunliffe-, Sir
Person · 1828-1894

Sir Francis Philip Cunliffe-Owen was an exhibition organiser and the Director of the South Kensington Museum in London
Owen, Eirwen M
Person · 1914

She became Head of General Department in 1958, Assistant Controller in 1964, Assistant to the Director-General in 1966, and Director of Administration in 1967
Owen, E
Person · 1914-
Outram, James, Sir
Person · 1803-1863

Lieutenant-General Sir James Outram was a British general who fought in the Indian Rebellion of 1857
Otto, Ruby
Person · 1888-

Temporary Toileteer at ZSL London Zoo