Hon. John Collier.] [By permission of
the Linnean Society.
CHARLES R. DARWIN, LL.D.,
1809–1882.
Naturalist. Born at Shrewsbury; educated there and at Edinburgh and Cambridge. His researches into the “Origin of Species,” “The Descent of Man,” &c., have revolutionized modern ideas on these subjects.
From a Photograph by Mayall, Piccadilly.
PROFESSOR SIR RICHARD OWEN,
1804–1892.
Naturalist, and one of the greatest authorities on comparative anatomy and osteology. First Hunterian Professor of the Royal College of Surgeons (1836), and first Superintendent (1856–1883) of the Natural History Department of the British Museum, now housed in the building here shown, in the arrangement of which he was greatly interested. It was said of him that he could describe any animal from a single bone.
From a Photograph] [by Valentine & Sons, Dundee.