Dinosaurs and other extinct saurians : a historical perspective : introduction / R.T.J. Moody [and others] -- The roles played by museums, collections and collectors in the early history of reptile palaeontology / M. Evans -- William Perceval Hunter (1812-1878), forgotten English student of dinosaurs-to-be and of Wealden rocks / H.S. Torrens -- 'Old bones, dry subject' : the dinosaurs and pterosaur collected by Alfred Nicholson Leeds of Peterborough, England / L.F. Noè, J.J. Liston & S.D. Chapman -- Life and ideas of Giovanni Capellini (1833-1922) : a palaeontological revolution in Italy / F. Fanti -- Alan Jack Charig (1927-1997) : an overview of his academic accomplishments and role in the world of fossil reptile research / R.T.J. Moody & D. Naish -- Forgotten women in an extinct saurian (man's) world / S. Turner, C.V. Burek & R.T.J. Moody -- Wilhelm (Guillermo) Schulz and the earliest discoveries of dinosaurs and marine reptiles in Spain / X.P. Suberbiola [and others] -- The history of dinosaur collecting in central India, 1828-1947 / M.T. Carrano, J.A. Wilson & P.M. Barrett -- Spinosaurs before Stromer : early finds of spinosaurid dinosaurs and their interpretations / E. Buffetaut -- Yorkshire dinosaurs : a history in two parts / M.A. Whyte, M. Romano & W. Watts -- Chirotherium, the Liverpool footprint hunters and their interpretation of the Middle Trias environment / A.J. Bowden, G.R. Tresise & W. Simkiss -- Pneumaticity, the early years : Wealden Supergroup dinosaurs and the hypothesis of saurischian pneumaticity / D. Naish -- A short history of research on Archaeopteryx and its relationship with dinosaurs / P. Wellnhofer -- Thomas Henry Huxley and the reptile to bird transition / B. Switek -- A history of digit identification in the manus of theropods (including Aves) / K.L. Hansen -- The history of late Jurassic pterosaurs housed in Hungarian collections and the revision of the holotype of Pterodactylus micronyx Meyer 1856 (a 'Pester Exemplar') / A. Ősi, E. Prondvai & B. Géczy -- The early history of pterosaur discovery in Great Britain / D.M. Martill -- Pteranodon and beyond : the history of giant pterosaurs from 1870 onwards / M.P. Witton -- Art and palaeontology in German-occupied France : Les Diplodocus by Mathurin Méheut (1943) / J. Le Loeuff -- 2000 A.D. and the new 'Flesh' : first to report the dinosaur renaissance in 'moving' pictures / J.J. Liston -- Sauropod dinosaur research : a historical review / M.P. Taylor.