Hawkins, Benjamin Waterhouse (1807-1889)
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1807 - 1889
Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:
Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins Album
Collection — Box: 1-2
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0803
Overview
Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins, author, sculptor and naturalist, began this album in 1872, and continued to add to it intermittently, the last datable entry being of 1878. In its entirety, the album contains 56 items, including manuscripts, clippings, and images. This finding aid contains only the images found within the album. These images consist of 37 items: 16 photographic sepia prints, 10 prints, 3 b&w photographic prints, 3 wash drawings, 2 ink drawings, 2 watercolor drawings, and 1...
Dates:
circa 1853-1875
Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0975
Dates:
1836-1880
Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins, Lithographs
Collection — Box: Oversize Small Collections 7
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0448
Scope and Contents
Hawkins was an English anatomist, osteologist and paleontologist, but apparently confined his interests to skeletal aspects, stressing comparative osteology as an approach to artistic representations. One paper appeared in the Academy's Proceedings for 1874, "On the Pelvis of Hadrosaurus", and another in New York in 1870 on Ichthyosaurus. He was elected to the Academy as a corresponding member in 1868. These colored lithographs,
are all labeled "Unpublished. Annonymous." However printed on...
Dates:
1829
Joseph Leidy Correspondence
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0001
Overview
Joseph Mellick Leidy (1823-1891), one of the great American scientists of the 19th century, possessed a vast knowledge of the natural world. Best known as the Father of American vertebrate paleontology, he also pioneered the fields of parasitology and protozoology, and was the preeminent anatomist of his time. He was also an influential teacher of natural history and an expert in areas as diverse as entomology, geology and pathology. The Joseph Leidy Correspondence collection contains...
Dates:
1845-1913, undated
London Illustrated News issue featuring Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins dinosaurs
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: ANSP-2012-061
Replicas of Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins Crystal Palace Restorations of Fossil Reptiles
Collection — no container: 1-2
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-1013
Scope and Contents
A collection of two plaster cast replicas of models sold in Henry A Ward's Catalogue of casts of fossils : from the principal museums of Europe and America, with short descriptions and illustrations (1866). Ward's replicas are of Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins' fossil restorations that were first displayed at Crystal Palace Park in London, in 1854. The models are of a Megalosaurus (item 303 in Ward's catalogue) and Iguanodon (item 304).
Dates:
1866
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Paleontology 3
- Casts 1
- Clippings 1
- Correspondence 1
- Drawings 1
- Hadrosaurus folkii 1
- Illustration 1
- Illustrations 1
- Lithographs 1
- Medicine 1
- Natural History 1
- Newspapers 1
- Scientific illustrations 1
- Sketches 1
- Watercolor painting 1 ∧ less
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