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RICHARD, (o'en,) a distinguished English palæontologist and comparative anatomist, B. at Lancaster, 1804, became Curator of the Hunter i an Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons, in 1836, Hunter i an Profe or at the same institution, and in 1856 Director of the Natural History depts. of the British Museum, and a Foreign A ociate of the French Institute. This eminent naturalist is opposed to the Darwin i an theory of Natural selection, holding in lieu thereof what he calls an " hypothesis of Derivation." Among his pp. works maybe mentioned Odontography (1840); History of British Fo il Mammals and Birds (1846); On the Anatomy of Vertebrates (1866-8), . Ow'en, ROBERT, a theorist and philanthropist, B. in Wales, 1771, after accumulating a large fortune in the cotton-trade in Scotland, settled in Indiana, U. S., in 1823, where he formed a Socialistic community under the name of New Harmmy. He afterwards tried, but without succe , to introduce his Utopian crotchets into English life. D. 1858.-His son, ROBERT DALE OWEN, B. 1804, became a citizen of the U. States, entered Congre as a Democrat in 1843, and has written various works, chief of which are New Views of Society (1825), and Footfalls on the Boun darics of another World (1859). D. June 24th, 1877. Ow'en, in Indiana, a S.W. central co.; area, 400 sq. m.; C. Spencer. Pop. 16,136.-In Kentucky, a N. co.; area, 360 sq. m.; C. Owenton. Pop. 14,309. [s. 674]