He was granted sick leave to visit England for a second time in 1864, where he was entertained by Sir Richard Owen of the British Museum and Sir Roderick Murchison of the Royal Geographical Society, and was made an honorary member of the Athenaeum Club.
22.
In this work, which took some three years, he collaborated with Sir Richard Owen and other leading scientific figures of the time : Owen estimated the size and overall shape of the animals, leaving Hawkins to sculpt the models according to Owen's directions.
23.
It has no close living relative, but it has been shown to be genetically close to the dodo, and the genus name " Didunculus " means " little dodo " . the English name of "'dodlet "'was suggested by Sir Richard Owen.
24.
Ichthyosaurs belong to the order known as "'Ichthyosauria "'or "'Ichthyopterygia "'('fish flippers' a designation introduced by Sir Richard Owen in 1840, although the term is now used more for the parent clade of the Ichthyosauria ).
25.
-- British anatomist Sir Richard Owen, coining the term " dinosaur " in 1842, as quoted in Deborah Cadbury's " Terrible Lizard : The First Dinosaur Hunters and the Birth of a New Science " ( Henry Holt and Co ., 2000, $ 27.50 ).
26.
In addition to the work already cited he produced busts of Cyril Flower, John R . Clayton ( since broken up by the artist, the fate of much of his admirable work ), G . F . Watts, Sir Henry Tate, Sir George Birdwood, Sir Richard Owen, Sir George Grove and various others.
27.
He kept up a correspondence with his early friend Sir Richard Owen, to whom he had sent the first specimens of the Nautilus to arrive in England, and with Sydney Botanic Gardens and the Acclimatization Society, and was a vice-president of the Zoological Society, and a member of the board of the Australian Museum.
28.
During the sinking of the well in the 1870s several large fossilised bones were recovered and were sent to the Australian Museum, some of which were later sent to Sir Richard Owen who identified the fossils as belonging to different genus of Diprotodon, Euowenia, Nototherium, Genyornis, various Macropodidae, Megalania and at least one genus of crocodile ( Pallimnarchus ).
29.
"' Dinosaur classification "'began in 1842 when Sir Richard Owen placed " Iguanodon ", " Megalosaurus ", and " Hylaeosaurus " in " a distinct tribe or suborder of Saurian Reptiles, for which I would propose the name of Dinosauria . " In 1887 and 1888 Harry Seeley divided dinosaurs into the two orders Saurischia and Ornithischia, based on their hip structure.
30.
A particularly famous sea serpent sighting was made by the officers and men of HMS " Daedalus " in August 1848 during a voyage to Saint Helena in the South Atlantic; the creature they saw, some long, held a snakelike head above the water, and Captain Peter M'Quahe's report said " something like the mane of a horse, or rather a bunch of seaweed washed about its back . " The sighting caused quite a stir in the London papers, and Sir Richard Owen, the famous English biologist, proclaimed the beast an elephant seal.
