[Update; I've now received all the papers (thank you all!), but I'll leave the list up here just in case anyone else is interested in tracking these down for their own interests.]
In the process of writing a chapter on the evolution of birds (and, therefore, dinosaurs) I've found that there is a much larger body of literature on the topic than I had previously accounted for. I've got a few books on the topic and have downloaded dozens of papers, but some of the most important papers to my vision for the chapter are beyond my grasp. Many of these are older papers by Richard Owen and T.H. Huxley that have been made available via the Lyell Collection online, although my university does not have access to that publication. If anyone could send me any of the papers listed below I would be most grateful; I can't see writing about this topic without a good sense of history.
Huxley, T.H. "On Hypsilophodon Foxii, a new Dinosaurian from the Wealden of the Isle of Wight" Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society; 1870; v. 26; issue.1-2; p. 3-12;
DOI: 10.1144/GSL.JGS.1870.026.01-02.07
Seeley, H.G. "On a Sacrum, apparently indicating a new type of Bird, Ornithodesmus cluniculus, Seeley, from the Wealden of Brook." Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society; 1887; v. 43; issue.1-4; p. 206-211;
DOI: 10.1144/GSL.JGS.1887.043.01-04.19
Huxley, T.H. "On the Classification of the Dinosauria, with observations on the Dinosauria of the Trias." Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society; 1870; v. 26; issue.1-2; p. 32-51;
DOI: 10.1144/GSL.JGS.1870.026.01-02.09
Huxley, T.H. "On the Upper Jaw of Megalosaurus." Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society; 1869; v. 25; issue.1-2; p. 311-314;
DOI: 10.1144/GSL.JGS.1869.025.01-02.58
Padian, K. "The Rehabilitation of Sir Richard Owen" BioScience, Vol. 47, No. 7 (Jul. - Aug., 1997), pp. 446-453 doi:10.2307/1313060 [Thanks Barn Owl, Justin, and Michael!]
Owen, R."On the Skull of Megalosaurus." Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society; 1883; v. 39; issue.1-4; p. 334-347; DOI: 10.1144/GSL.JGS.1883.039.01-04.22
Huxley, T. H. "Further Evidence of the Affinity between the Dinosaurian Reptiles and Birds." Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society; 1870; v. 26; issue.1-2; p. 12-31; DOI: 10.1144/GSL.JGS.1870.026.01-02.08
Gingerich, R.P. "Skull of Hesperornis and Early Evolution of Birds" Nature 243, 70 - 73 (11 May 1973); doi:10.1038/243070a0 [Thank you Ursula and Barn Owl!]
Ostrom, J.H. "On the Origin of Birds." Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences [Thanks Ursula, Mike, and Justin!]
Vol. 3: 55-77; 1975; doi:10.1146/annurev.ea.03.050175.000415
[Thanks to Luna for all the Geological Society papers!]
I know it's a long list, but I would really appreciate the efforts of anyone who is able to help. Any papers can be sent to evogeek AT gmail DOT com, and I'll strike out any references here as I receive papers so that no one goes to all that trouble to send a double. Thanks!
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Looks like my university doesn't have access to the Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society either.
All 6 of the Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society papers are on their way to you, in a .zip file. If they don't get through, let me know.
Seriously, the .zip file of those was 17MB.
Brian, you might already know this, but Huxley wasn't the first person to hypothesize a close relationship between a theropod dinosaur and a bird -- that honor goes to Carl Gegenbaur, who made this statement based on a comparison of the ankle of Compsognathus and embryonic birds in:
Gegenbaur, C. 1864. Untersuchungen zur vergleichenden Anatomie der Wirbelthiere erstes Heft. Carpus und Tarsus. Verlag von Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig, 122 pp.
...specifically on pp. 85-86. This volume is available for free download at http://tinyurl.com/3cke24 (and the companion, second volume at http://tinyurl.com/2vmsnd). I don't know offhand if Huxley knew of this. Huxley's contributions are, of course, exceptionally important, and he's certainly the first person to have made the dinosaur-bird connection widely known...he just wasn't the first.
I tried to send this a couple days ago, but it seems to have gotten lost in the ether!
Anyway, as important as Huxley's work was (and is) in terms of being the first really widespread dissemination (and probably popularization) of the idea that dinosaurs shared a close relationship to theropod dinosaurs, Huxely wasn't the first with the idea. That honor goes to Carl (Karl) Gegenbaur, who mentioned the idea based on (as far as I can tell -- my German is nonexistent!) comparisons between the tarsals of Compsognathus and birds discussed on pp. 84-85 of:
Gegenbaur C. 1864. Untersuchungen zur vergleichenden Anatomie der Wirbelthiere erstes Heft. Carpus und Tarsus. Verlag von Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig, 122 pp.
This book, and others by Gegenbaur, are available as free PDF downloads here via Google Books...kinda hard to find via their search engine, though, for some reason.
If this comes through, drop me a line to let me know!