Abstract
Michael Taylor (Leicestershire Museums, Arts and Records Service, 96 New Walk, Leicester LEI 6TD) writes: 'Thomas Hawkins of Glastonbury has generally been regarded as an archetypal eccentric collector, who accumulated one of the finest collections of Liassic fossil marine reptiles from around Street and Glastonbury in Somerset, with a smaller proportion from Lyme Regis and Charmouth in Dorset. Although by no means forgotten (e.g. Blanford 1890; Owen 1894; Howe et ^.1981; McGowan 1983; McGarvie 1987), he has been the subject of little if any primary research since the biography of Bulleid (1943), which is itself vague as to the existence of any original documents. Hawkins deseryes at least a brief reappraisal in time for 1989, the centenary of...
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