1.  Sketch books ranging from the 1820s to 1860s, never before exhibited.   Hawkins family collection.

2.   BWH’s earliest sketch books (up to 1836).   Miniature portrait of BWH painted in 1855 by his wife, Frances Louisa, (middle left).   Front right is BWH’s sketch of his daughter, Edith, as a very young child.

3.   Later sketchbooks from 1836 on.   Notes for one of BWH’s lectures (middle foreground).

4.  Thomas Henry Huxley and Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins An Elementary Atlas of Comparative Osteology in Twelve Plates

5.  Illustrating Nature. The Voyage of HMS Beagle, Illustrations of Indian Zoology, The Voyage of HMS Sulphur

6.   The Darwin Connection.  Waterhouse Hawkins, Anti-Evolutionist

7.   Letter from Charles Darwin  which BWH mounted in
his American album.

8.   Invitation card and bill of fare for the dinner party at Crystal Palace, London, December 31^st 1853.

9.   Interior of BWH’s studio, Central Park, New York.

10.   New York “Shanties” occupying part of Central Park designated as the location of Hawkins’ proposed Palaeozoic Museum.

11.   Hawkins’ vision of the Central Park, New York, Palaeozoic Museum

12.   Mastodon fountain design, layout plan and workings, submitted to Napoleon III for installation in the Place de la Bastille, Paris, but rejected.

13.   Grateful acknowledgment by the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia of Hawkins’ gift of the  articulated Hadrosaurus reconstruction

14.   Plaster skull of Hadrosaurus  sculpted by Hawkins, based on Iguana.