John Whitaker Hulke was one of the early pioneers of vertebrate palaeontology whose work is now somewhat forgotten. At various times he was President of the Geological Society, President of the Royal College of Surgeons, President of the Clinical Society and President of the Pathological Society. He was also a Fellow of the Royal Society and Consulting Surgeon at Moorfields Eye Hospital. His initial research into dinosaurs was based around specimens collected by Mr Mansel Pleydell of Blandford in Dorset. He also developed a close friendship with the Reverend William Fox on the Isle of Wight and for a time Hulke had almost exclusive access to this collection. The sauropod Ornithopsis hulkei was named in his honour by his friend Harry Govier Seeley in 1870. Hulke described and named a number of dinosaurs including Eucamerotus, Cumnoria (= Iguanodon) prestwichii and Lexovisaurus (= Omosaurus) durobrivensis, amongst others. Hulke attempted the first complete skeletal reconstruction of the small ornithopod dinosaur Hypsilophodon foxii. He is also credited with the first detailed description of Polacanthus foxii. His personal collection was donated to the British Museum by his widow Julia and is now stored in the Natural History Museum, London.
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