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To
promote
the international exhibition in the Crystal Palace (Sydenham , London)
for New Year's Eve 1853 twenty-one distinguished guests were invited to a
banquet inside the unfinished model of an Iguanodon, sculpture made by
artist Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins under severe examination of leading
anatomist Richard Owen to celebrate the new discovered
proudly-prehistoric monsters [...]
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