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Illustration of Hawkins' studio at the Central Park Arsenal, with models of extinct animals. Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins (February 8, 1807 - January 27, 1894) was an English sculptor, natural history artist, and zoologist. He was appointed assistant superintendent of the Great Exhibition of 1851 in London. The following year (1852), he was appointed by the Crystal Palace company to create 33 life-size concrete models of extinct dinosaurs to be placed in the south London park to which the great glass exhibition hall was to be relocated. In this work, which took some three years, he collaborated with Richard Owen and other leading scientific figures of the time. In 1868, he traveled to America to deliver a series of lectures. Working with Joseph Leidy, he designed and cast the world's first mounted dinosaur skeleton of Hadrosaurus foulkii which was displayed at the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia. He was later commissioned to produce models for New York City's Central Park mu...