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Evolution: A Journal of Nature – contents listed, sorted by issue number

This page lists articles appearing in Evolution: A Journal of Nature with contents sorted by issue, then author. This data is available as an Endnote file (Evolution – A Journal of Nature – Complete Table of […]

Illuminations by C. T. Brock and Co, Sutton, Surrey, England. Advertising postcard for Brock’s Crystal Palace Fireworks and Illuminations, postmarked 1906.

Brock’s Illuminations 1906 Connected with Crystal Palace Dinosaurs

Brock’s Illuminations and Fireworks might be celebrating Crystal Palace Dinosaurs in their famous and rare 1906 postcard promoting their “Illuminations” at Crystal Palace. It’s possible, but I think that is a tenuous. The postcard features […]

Dinner in the Iguanodon Model, at the Crystal Palace, Sydenham

New Year’s Eve Dinner in the Iguanodon at Crystal Palace 31 December 1853

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, […]

Robert E. Sloan | American Paleontologist | by Professor Joe Cain | 2008

Interview with Robert Evan Sloan (1929-2019)

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 […]

Crystal Palace Park, by George Baxter (1854), with sculptures by Waterhouse Hawkins and landscaping by Paxton. Baxter process print

George Baxter and the Crystal Palace Dinosaurs

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 […]

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, […]