Geology and palaeontology collections
Some of the artistically-arranged forams in the Ernest Heath Collection
Housed at the National Museum Wales in Cardiff, the following collections may be of interest to ocean acidification researchers:
Beach sand collection
- Samples date to around 1940s and 1950s (but dates associated with it may not be good)
- Material is listed in an Excel spreadsheet
FJ North Collection
- Small slide collection of forams and bryozoa
- Specimens date from 1920s, mostly collected from beaches
- Material is listed in an Excel spreadsheet
Challenger and Porcupine expeditions collection
- Slide collection of foram and diatom ooze gathered during the HMS Challenger and Porcupine expeditions
- Slides were produced by commercial companies
- This material may relate to Natural History Museum collections via station numbers
- Material is listed in an Excel spreadsheet – includes station numbers
Ernest Heath Collection
- Contains forams (arranged artistically) collected from beaches, anchor mud, and soundings
- Specimens date from 1905-1918, some from the Challenger expeditions
- The collection is databased
Contact information
National Museum Wales personnel interviewed:
Database
Spreadsheet of National Museum Wales geology and palaeontology collections Excel (53.0 KB)
(Content is organised by collection)
Excel files
If you are unable to open any Excel file on this page, please email the project coordinator Jeremy Young to request the document in another format.