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Owen, Sir Richard
(Encyclopedia)Owen, Sir Richard, 1804–92, English zoologist and comparative anatomist. He studied medicine in Edinburgh and in 1827 joined the staff of the Hunterian museum of the Royal College of Surgeons, where...Cincinnati Art Museum
(Encyclopedia)Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, Ohio. Founded in 1877 by the Women's Art Museum Association, the museum opened in 1886. Its collections contain examples spanning 3,000 years of artistic production....South Kensington Museum
(Encyclopedia)South Kensington Museum: see Victoria and Albert Museum. ...Milne-Edwards, Henri
(Encyclopedia)Milne-Edwards, Henri äNrēˈ mēlˌnādwärsˈ [key], 1800–1885, French naturalist. He became professor at the Sorbonne (1843) and served at the Museum of Natural History, Paris, as professor (from...Battle Creek
(Encyclopedia)Battle Creek, city (2020 pop. 52,721), Calhoun co., S Mich., at the confluence of the Kalamazoo and Battle Creek rivers; settled 1831, inc. as a city 18...MacMillan, Donald Baxter
(Encyclopedia)MacMillan, Donald Baxter, 1874–1970, American arctic explorer, b. Provincetown, Mass., grad. Bowdoin College, 1898, and studied at Harvard. After a decade of teaching, he went on the expedition (190...National Museum of the American Indian
(Encyclopedia)National Museum of the American Indian, institution devoted to the collection, preservation, and presentation of the culture of the indigenous populations of the Western Hemisphere, a division of the ...National Museum of the United States
(Encyclopedia)National Museum of the United States: see Smithsonian Institution. ...Cope, Edward Drinker
(Encyclopedia)Cope, Edward Drinker, 1840–97, American paleontologist and comparative anatomist, b. Philadelphia, studied at the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, and at the Smithsonian Institution. His l...Peale, Charles Willson
(Encyclopedia)Peale, Charles Willson pēl [key], 1741–1827, American portrait painter, naturalist, and inventor, b. Queen Annes County, Md. Charles Willson Peale's brother James Peale, 1749–1831, b. Cheste...Browse by Subject
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