Publisher's Synopsis
Sir Richard Owen (1804-1892), comparative anatomist, colleague and later antagonist of Darwin, and Head of the British Museum (Natural History) chose not to publish his views in a major theoretical work. Instead he presented them through a series of lectures at the Royal College of Surgeons from 1837 to 1865. Now, modern readers have access to the opening series of Hunterian Lectures which reveal the nature of the synthesis of French, German and British biology taking place in London at this crucial period in 19th-century life science.
