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SUMMARY:A Fossil Feast: 31 December 1853\, Sydenham Park\, London - Dr Bec
 ky Lewis\, Assistant Professor Emerita University of South Carolina\; Visi
 ting Fellow\, Wolfson College
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CONTACT:Graham Allen
DESCRIPTION:On December 31\, 1853\, a most unusual feast took place in Syd
 enham Park\, South London where the World's Fair Crystal Palace was reasse
 mbled for public view. A lavish seven-course dinner hosted by artist Benja
 min Waterhouse Hawkins and the Crystal Palace Company celebrated his "giga
 ntic restorations of the Extinct Inhabitants of the Ancient World." \nThis
  paper chronicles the events leading up to this last hurrah of Richard Owe
 n\, the "British Cuvier\," who in 1853 was at the height of an impressive 
 career and the leading scientist of the nineteenth century. Owen became ch
 ief spokesman of the anti-Darwinian cause in the evolutionary debate and b
 oth he and his work were soon eclipsed by the Darwinians. Owen does leave 
 an important legacy seen most vividly in the popularity of dinosaurs and t
 he dinosaur event\, but also in the way we think of our museums of natural
  history.\n
LOCATION:Combination Room\, Wolfson College
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