The “Dinner in the Iguanodon Model” is the best known story involving Crystal Palace Dinosaurs. That dinner took place on New Year’s Eve 31 December 1853. It was immortalised in an illustration published in Illustrated London News, More…
A series of oral history interviews in 1996 with Professor Robert Evan Sloan (Bob) (1929-2019) regarding his career, the recent history of paleontology, and the life of an American scientist in the second half of the twentieth More…
The famous 1854 print by George Baxter of Crystal Palace and Park at Sydenham is a favourite for those who explore the history of Crystal Palace Dinosaurs. The post investigates the print’s composition and describes More…