The old man had been living a life of seclusion ever since the death of his benefactor,
the great anatomist Lord Drogo, so when I received his letter, asking me to come to him at once, I wasted no time.
Hand - built from brick, cement, and iron by the
great paleo - artist Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins, these architectural constructions were the first dinosaur models ever put on public display, only a few years after the term «dinosaur» itself was coined, in 1842, by Hawkins» scientific overseer, the
anatomist Richard Owen.