Confusion With William Fox The Palaeontologist
There is considerable confusion between Fox and his less celebrated contemporary the synonymic Rev. William Fox (1813-1881) who was also an amateur scientist and lived and worked on the Isle of Wight at the same time. William Darwin Fox is sometimes ascribed the credit for early dinosaur discoveries. However William Darwin Fox was noted for his geological work, and entomology, but is not recorded as having any particular interest in dinosaurs.
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