Status Updates From Richard Owen: Victorian Nat...

Massive progress today

• The note on his response to Robert chambers in the publishers letter as to the “more likely” modes of organic evolution compared to transmutation is interesting, should be cross referenced with how Chambers described the exchange at some point.
• With the fixation on asexual reproduction and particularly medusae - was T. Bell involved in that?

Fascinating venture into the complexities surrounding Owen’s “Archetype” and the social barriers, safeguards and set dressing used to maintain credibility amongst the Oxbridgeans.
Much of the terminology i have yet to understand fully, though.