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All in the Bones: A Biography of Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins by Valerie Bramwell and Robert M. Peck. Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, 2008.

Early in his career, Hawkins, a British painter and naturalist with a vast knowledge of comparative anatomy, drew illustrations of fauna and fossils for major Victorian naturalists such as Charles Darwin and Thomas Henry Huxley. Later he fashioned the world's first life-sized reconstructions of dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures, capturing the interest of millions with his installation of dinosaur sculptures at London's Crystal Palace in 1854. Thus he was the father of the dinosaur installations and ...

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