Editorial Type:
Article Category: Research Article
| Online Publication Date: 05 Nov 2007
Cover, Table of Contents, Editorial, Letters to the Editor
Cover, Table of Contents, Editorial, Letters to the Editor
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Cadbury, Deborah, Terrible Lizard: The First Dinosaur Hunters and the Birth of a New Science (London: Fourth Estate, 2000; New York: H. Holt, 2000).
Charig, Alan, A New Look at the Dinosaurs (New York: Mayflower, 1979).
Dean, Dennis R., Gideon Mantell and the Discovery of Iguanodon, Modern Geology, 1993, 218:209-219. Also in Turkish translation. Reprinted, 1995, in W. A. S. Sarjeant, ed., Vertebrate Fossils and the Evolution of Scientific Concepts (and again in my 1999 book on Mantell).
Dean, Dennis R., Gideon Algernon Mantell (1790-1852): A Bibliography with Supplementary Essays (Delmar, NY, 1998). ISBN 0-8201-1519-3. Includes further information on Mantell's personality, his medical practice, his politics, his poetry, and his sons (e.g., "Walter in New Zealand").
Dean, Dennis R., The First "Dinosaur" Book: Richard Owen on British Fossil Reptiles (1842) (Delmar, NY, 1999). ISBN 0-8201-15265-6. Previously published as Report of the Eleventh Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science; held at Plymouth in July 1841. Reproduces Mantell's annotated copy in full and part of Owen's, together with other additions. ISBN 0-521-42048-2. Also in Japanese translation
Dean, Dennis R., Gideon Mantell and the Discovery of Dinosaurs (Cambridge, UK, and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999). ISBN 0-521-42048-2. Also in Japanese translation.
Gibbons, Wes, The Weald (London: Unwin, 1981).
McGowan, Christopher, The Dragon Seekers: How an Extraordinary Circle of Fossilists Discovered the Dinosaurs and Paved the Way for Darwin (London: Little, Brown, 2001; Boulder, CO: Perseus Pub., 2001).
Sarjeant, W. A. S., ed., Vertebrate Fossils and the Evolution of Scientific Concept (Reading: Gordon and Breach, 1995).
Beckles, S. H., On Supposed Casts of Footprints in the Wealden [abstract], Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London, 1851, 7:117.
Dean, Dennis R., ed., Gideon Mantell and the Discovery of Dinosaurs (Cambridge, UK, and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999).
Hitchcock, Edward, Ornithichnology.—Description of the Foot marks of Birds (Ornithichnites) on New Red Sandstone in Massachusetts, American Journal of Science, 1836, 29:307-380, 21 figures (in 3 folding plates).
Saxby, S. M., On the Discovery of Footmarks in the Green sand of the Isle of Wight, London, Edinburgh & Dublin Philosophical Magazine, 1846, no. 29, pp. 310-312, 5 unnumbered figures.
Tagart, Edward, On Markings in the Hastings Sand near Hastings, supposed to be the footprints of Birds, Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London, 1846, 2:267.
Weishampel, David B., Peter Dodson, and Halszka Osmólska, eds., The Dinosauria (Berkeley, CA, and Oxford, UK: University of California Press, 1990).