Scientific enquiries
Latimeria chalumnae, coelacanth specimen. Coelacanths were thought to have died out 85 million years ago but have since been found off the south-eastern coast of Africa and in Sulawesi in 1998.
Scientific enquiries relating to the collections can be addressed to the relevant collections management team.
It can be difficult to answer questions about specimens not yet on the Museum’s collections management system. Most other specimens were either registered by hand in a ledger book register or may be unregistered.
If you require information for a small non-inventoried group, we may be able to provide a spreadsheet from the collection. However, as this is extremely time-consuming we may have to charge for the curator’s time.
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Botany collections staff
Contact Botany collections staff with scientific research enquiries relating to the Museums botanical collections.
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Entomology collections staff
Contact Entomology collections staff with scientific research enquiries relating to the Museums Entomology collections.
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Mineralogy collections staff
Contact Mineralogy collections staff with scientific research enquiries relating to the Museums Mineralogy collections.
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Palaeontology collections staff
Contact Palaeontology collections staff with scientific research enquiries relating to the Museums Palaeontology collections.
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Zoology collections staff
Contact Zoology collections staff with scientific research enquiries relating to the Museums Zoological collections.
Online specimen catalogues
Looking for a specimen? Search the Museums collections databases online.
Identification and Advisory Service
Found an animal, plant, fossil or mineral that you can't identify? Visit our identification enquiries page.
Identification enquiries
