Jonathan T on Nostr: Koch's exhibition in London led to the purchase by the British Museum of his ...

Koch's exhibition in London led to the purchase by the British Museum of his Leviathan for the princely sum of £1,300, and at this juncture, we meet Richard Owen who would go on to found what is now known as the Natural History Museum in London.

Owen is probably most famous for the 'terrible lizard' moniker he later gave to a subset of fossilised land animals - the 'Dinosauria' - but already by the 1840s he was a scientist with an interest in anatomy.

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