Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 1673

SIR RICHARD OWEN (1804-1892) On the anatomy of vertebrates. Longmans, Green, and Co. 1866-1868 Vol. I: xlii, 650 pp., illus.; Vol. II: viii, 592 pp., illus.; Vol. III: x, 915 pp., illus. 22 cm.

For more information on this author or work, see number: 1669

Sir William Flower (1831-1899) considered this anatomical treatise second in importance only to Cuvier's comparative anatomy (see No. 1239). The entire work was based on Owen's personal observations and includes a vast number of illustrations, many of which were drawn with the aid of the microscope, a tool which Owen helped to popularize as an instrument for naturalists. The preface contains a concise discussion of the distinction between homologous and analogous structures, a concept which Owen had introduced some years earlier.

See Related Record(s): 1239

Cited references: Garrison-Morton 336; Waller 11922

Gift of John Martin, M.D.