Using collection specimens for research
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.
Are you a researcher ?
Would you like to use specimens from the collections for your research?
If you are a researcher and you would like to use specimens from the collections for your research please use our online access to the
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.
If you are a member of the public with a question please contact the Angela Marmont Centre for UK Biodiversity
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Botany collections staff
Contact botany collections staff with scientific research enquiries relating to the Museum's botanical collections.
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Entomology collections staff
Contact entomology collections staff with scientific research enquiries relating to the Museum's entomological collections.
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Mineralogy collections staff
Contact mineralogy collections staff with scientific research enquiries relating to the Museum's mineralogical collections.
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Palaeontology collections staff
Contact palaeontology collections staff with scientific research enquiries relating to the Museum's palaeontological collections.
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Zoology collections staff
Contact zoology collections staff with scientific research enquiries relating to the Museum's zoological collections.
Online specimen catalogues
Looking for a specimen? Search the Museum's 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
