Pauline Carpenter Dear/Richard Owen

[StephanPickering@cs.com]

A query for members. In 1984, Pauline Carpenter Dear, at Princeton University, won the Henry and Ida Schuman Prize for her paper "Richard Owen and the invention of the dinosaur". This paper is not on file at the Princeton University Library, and queries to her husband Peter Dear, at Cornell, are unanswered. From what little I know of its contents, she took issue with Adrian Desmond's 1979 paper on the question, Mr Grant believing Richard Owen erected Dinosauria as a way of countering Robert Grant's transmutationism, i.e.,  Mr Owen argued, if dinosaurs were endothermic like mammals, then extant ectothermic reptiles could not be descendents of  "advanced" taxa. Pauline Carpenter Dear disagreed: Mr Owen's focus was two-fold: the "functionalist" arguments between Georges Cuvier and Etienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, and, more importantly, his ill-disguised antipathy toward Gideon!
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antell. By creating Dinosauria, Mr Owen was able to appropriate any public attention Mr Mantell was garnering with his "age of reptiles" (Mr Mantell coined the phrase) and, over time, with the Crystal Palace reconstructions etc., Mr Owen knew that when the "public" in Victorian England thought of the dinosaurs, they would link them with Richard Owen and his natural history museum efforts.
       Does anyone who reads this in cyberia have a copy of Ms. Dear's paper?