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Joshua Reynolds two statues in courtyard of Royal Academy of Arts, Burlington House, London

Portrait Gallery (Crystal Palace Guide 2) | EGP

This guide to the Portrait Gallery in Crystal Palace lists names of those chosen for display, plus biographical information. In effect, this offers a directory of those held in high esteem by mid-Victorian society. It’s […]

978-1-906267-11-7 Jameson 1854 Handbook to the Courts of Modern Sculpture

Courts of Modern Sculpture (Crystal Palace Guide 14) | EGP

An inventory for the statues and sculptures displayed in the Crystal Palace and Park. It’s a celebration of modern sculpting, 17th to 19th century, with English work set alongside French, German, and Italian masters. Individual […]

Crystal Palace Dinosaurs | Professor Joe Cain

Geology and Inhabitants of the Ancient World (Crystal Palace Guide 15) | EGP

Richard Owen’s original guide to the Crystal Palace Dinosaurs, created by Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins and displayed in Crystal Palace Park, Sydenham, London since 1854. These life-sized sculptures of prehistoric “monsters” included dinosaurs, mammals, marine reptiles, […]

Professor Joe Cain

UCL Professor of History and Philosophy of Biology

Synthesis Period in Evolutionary Studies

Columbia Biological Series, 1894-1974

George Gaylord Simpson’s “Night Thoughts on Leaving the American Museum of Natural History”

Physiological Genetics: Sewall Wright Taught Me, volume 3 | EGP

Ernst Mayr and the Biology of Birds Exhibit at AMNH

Evolution: Sewall Wright Taught Me, volume 1 | EGP

Crystal Palace Dinosaurs

Pterodactyl statues in Crystal Palace Dinosaurs | missing

Bernissart Iguanodons in the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Brussels

Punch 1855 Cartoon Visiting Crystal Palace Dinosaurs

The Country of the Iguanodon, by Gideon Mantell – Two Versions

Remembering Dinner in the Dinosaur: Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins’ 1862 Sketch

History of Science

Crystal Palace Dinosaurs – Rare 1968 Pamphlet – 150,000,000 B.C.

Biodynamica, published by Basile J. Luyet

The Country of the Iguanodon, by Gideon Mantell – Two Versions

On the Vegetable World as Contributing to the Great Exhibition, by Edward Forbes (1851)

Newton Horace Winchell’s History of Geological Surveys in Minnesota (1889)

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Crystal Palace Guides | Euston Grove Press

Portrait Gallery (Crystal Palace Guide 2) | EGP

Courts of Modern Sculpture (Crystal Palace Guide 14) | EGP

Geology and Inhabitants of the Ancient World (Crystal Palace Guide 15) | EGP